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KMID : 0613620190390010166
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Health Social Welfare Review
2019 Volume.39 No. 1 p.166 ~ p.199
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The Effect of Social Capital on Self-Rated Health Among Immigrants in South Korea
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Park Se-Hee
Hwang In-Uk
Ko Beuniel
Lee Tae-Jin
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Abstract
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In recent decades, South Korea has witnessed an increase in immigrants living in the country through international marriage. Social capital is required for immigrants to allow access to social support, helping them to settle in South Korea successfully. Therefore, the attention to immigrants’ social capital, which is obtained from social relationship and participation, is needed to lead to their healthy adaptation to Korean society. The objective of this study was to examine whether self-rated health would improve by developing social capital for immigrant population who have lack of social relationship or participation. We employed various methods such as OLS regression, propensity score matching (PSM), and instrumental variable (IV) in order to adjust for endogeneity of social capital as well as investigate the robustness of its effect on health. All results of OLS regression, PSM, and IV show that social relationship and participation affect self-rated health positively and the treatment effect is largest when IV regression analysis is conducted. These results have following implications for marriage immigrant policy in South Korea: first, since lack of social capital could cause differential vulnerability to poor health, it should be recommended to consider social capital as an important intervention to improve health for immigrant population with limited social capital; second, environment for marriage immigrants to communicate with native Koreans without difficulty should be provided; last, policy should be developed to target not only marriage immigrants but also other members of the households, including spouse and parents-in-law.
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KEYWORD
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Immigrants, Social Capital, Self-Rated Health, PSM, Instrumental Variable
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