Social Statistics Seminar Series - Matthew Wallace
| Dates: | 12 February 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Matthew Wallace |
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Please join us for the first Social Statistics Seminar of the year on Wednesday 12th February at 2pm. This seminar will be in person, so please join us for coffee and cake. Zoom link is also available.
Matthew Wallace
Reader in Social Inequality, University of Salford
Title: International migration, mortality, and national life expectancy
International migrants represent increasing and diverse proportions of the populations of major migrant-receiving countries that have a growing potential to influence estimates of national mortality. While many studies have reported mortality differences between migrants and non-migrants, very few studies have sought to quantify the actual impact of these differences upon national life expectancy, one of the world's most widely used metrics of population health that informs a vast array of social and public health policies. Here, we aim to quantify and unpack the impact of international migrants on national life expectancy in the Nordic region, particularly Sweden, over a long period of time (1990—2022) using total population register data. We use demographic methods that include calculations, and decompositions thereof, of national life expectancy. We place strong emphasis on varying contributions across countries, and by age, migrant generation, and migrant background. We document, a small, but growing impact of international migrants upon national life expectancy, alongside heterogeneity in the size and direction of these contributions according to (a) sex, (b) age, © generation, and (d) specific migrant origins.
Speaker
Matthew Wallace
Role: Reader in Social Inequality
Organisation: University of Salford
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G.020/021
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester
