Health Status and Social Capital of Recent Immigrants in Canada: Evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada

Jun Zhao, Li Xue, and Tara Gilkinson

This paper was originally published as a chapter in the following:

McDonald, T., E. Ruddick, A. Sweetman, and C. Worswick, eds. 2010. Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment. Montreal and Kingston: Queen’s Policy Studies Series, McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN 978-1-55339-281-1 (pbk.)

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Table of contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Literature review
  • Defining Social Capital
  • Social Capital and Immigrant Integration
  • Mechanisms Linking Social Capital and Health
  • Social Capital and Health
  • Immigrant Social Capital and Health
• Data and definition
  • Data sources
  • Definitions
    • Health status indicator
    • Social capital indicators
    • Income indicator
    • Other socio-demographic variables
• Descriptive analysis
• Econometric models
• Regression Results and Discussion
  • Regression results for family class immigrants
• Conclusion
  • Policy implications
• References
• Appendix
• Notes

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