Keywords
health insurance, labor market outcomes, employment effects
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance and labor market outcomes such as wages, earnings, employment, hours, occupational choice, job turnover, retirement, and the structure of employment. The ®rst part of the paper focuses on the relationship between health and labor market outcomes. The empirical literature surveyed suggests that poor health reduces the capacity to work and has substantive effects on wages, labor force participation and job choice. The exact magnitudes, however, are sensitive to both the choice of health measures and to identi®cation assumptions. The second part of the paper considers the link between health insurance and labor market outcomes. The empirical literature here suggests that access to health insurance has important effects on both labor force participation and job choice; the link between health insurance and wages is less clear. q1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Original Publication Citation
“Health, Health Insurance and the Labor Market.” 1999. In Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, editors, Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Amsterdam: Elsevier-North Holland, pp. 3309-3415 (with Janet Currie).
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Currie, Janet and Madrian, Brigitte C., "Health, Health Insurance and the Labor Market" (1999). Faculty Publications. 9095.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9095
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
Handbook of Labor Economics
Language
English
College
Marriott School of Business
Department
Finance
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