Employment-contingent health insurance, illness, and labor supply of women
Subtitle: evidence from married women with breast cancer
By: by Cathy J. Bradley ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bradley, Cathy J.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1577; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1577
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Insurance, Health; Married women; Breast -- Cancer
Description: "We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely to dampen the labor supply response. Second, we empirically evaluate this relationship using primary data. The results from our analysis find that -- as the model suggests is likely -- health shocks decrease labor supply to a greater extent among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment-contingent health insurance appears to create incentives to remain working and to work at a greater intensity when faced with a serious illness"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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