Volume 50 - Article 18 | Pages 473–502
Mortality inequalities at retirement age between migrants and non-migrants in Denmark and Sweden
By Julia Callaway, Cosmo Strozza, Sven Drefahl, Eleonora Mussino, Ilya Kashnitsky
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