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The labor-supply effects of extending health insurance to workers’ partners: The experience of Uruguay
Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics
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The labor-supply effects of extending health insurance to workers’ partners: The experience of Uruguay
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Parada, Cecilia
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Labor supply, Work incentives, Health insurance, Intra-household allocations
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In December 2010 Health Insurance in Uruguay was extended to the partners of workers in the formal labor market. This extension may have modified the incentives to participate in the formal and informal labor markets, potentially reducing overall participation or the share of individuals in the formal labor market whose partners were formally employed. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, effects of the Health Insurance expansion are estimated by comparing individuals affected by the policy over time with similar but unaffected individuals. We find negative and statistically significant effects: the policy extension reduces the share of the economically-active population in the formal labor market by 0.95 percentage points and women in formal employment in the private sector by 2.13 percentage points. In addition to these effects, we find significant heterogeneous effects by age, educational level, and the formality conditions of the partners. We also find an effect of the policy on occupation, though of smaller magnitude and not always statistically-significant.
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Universidad EAFIT
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2016-12-02
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182
10.17230/ecos.2016.43.3 |
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Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 20 No 43 (2016)
Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 20 No 43 (2016) 2462-8107 1657-4206 |
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eng
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http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182/3653
http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182/3873 http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182/3877 http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182/3995 http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182/4021 |
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Copyright (c) 2016 Cecilia Parada
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