title: Low migrant mortality in Germany for men aged 65 and older: fact or artifact?
abstract: Migrant mortality in Europe was found to be lower than mortality of host populations. In Germany, residents with migrant background constitute nearly one tenth of the population aged 65+ with about 40% of them being foreigners. The German Pension Scheme follows vital status of pensioners very accurately. Mortality re-estimation reveals two-fold underestimation of mortality of foreigners due to biased death numerator and population denominator.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1, 18057, Rostock, Germany. kibele@demogr.mpg.de
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kibele
authors.forename: Rembrandt
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.forename: Vladimir M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Shkolnikov
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015982:Bias; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D015989:Healthy Worker Effect; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D012042:Registries; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012923:Social Class; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*