Migration and Urban Graveyards

The aim of this paper is to study mortality differences between migrants and natives in the Western European port cities of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm (1850-1920). We will make use of life-course data from the Antwerp COR* database, the Historical Sample of the Netherlands and the Stockholm Historical Database. For the description of differences in mortality between migrants and natives we will make use of Kaplan Meier curves. We will fit an event history model (Cox proportional hazard model) in which time to death functions as the dependent variable. Independent variables of interest are sex, country of origin, socio-economic status, marital status, literacy (as an indicator of education), urban-rural background, city quarter of residence and cohort.