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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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Title The labor-supply effects of extending health insurance to workers’ partners: The experience of Uruguay
 
Creator Parada, Cecilia
 
Subject Labor supply, Work incentives, Health insurance, Intra-household allocations
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Universidad EAFIT
 
Date 2016-12-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
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Identifier http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/4182
10.17230/ecos.2016.43.3
 
Source 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
 
Language eng
 
Relation 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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