TY - JOUR
T1 - Chapter 50 Health, health insurance and the labor market
AU - Currie, Janet
AU - Madrian, Brigitte C.
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Abstract JEL codes 1 Overview 2 Health and the labor market 2.1 Health as human capital 2.2 Measm'ement issues: what is health? 2.3 Effects of health on wages, earnings, and hours 2.4 Studies that treat health as an endogenous choice 25 Evidence regarding health and attachment to the labor market 2,6 Health and type of work 2,7 Child health and future labor market outcomes 2,8 Health and the labor market: summary 3 Health insurance and the labor market 3.1 Health insurance provision in the United States: background 3,2 Estimating the effect of health insurance on labor market outcomes: identification issues 3.3 Employer provision of health insurance 3.4 The relationship between health insurance and wages 3.5 The relationship between health insurance and labor force participation: evidence on employment and hours worked 3.6 Health insurance and job turnover 3.7 Health insurance and the structure of employment 3.8 Health insurance and the labor market: summary 4 Conclusions Appendix A References * We thank participants in the Handbook of Labor Economics Conference held in Princeton, New Jersey, September 47, 1997 for helpful comments, and we thank Elnanuela Galasso for able research assistance. Funding from the National Institute on Aging and the University of Chicago (Madrian) is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - 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 first 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 identification 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.
AB - 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 first 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 identification 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1573-4463(99)30041-9
DO - 10.1016/S1573-4463(99)30041-9
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77956736216
SN - 1573-4463
VL - 3 PART
SP - 3309
EP - 3416
JO - Handbook of Labor Economics
JF - Handbook of Labor Economics
IS - 3
ER -