Health and Labor Force Participation

Berkowitz, Monroe; Johnson, William G.

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“…Households with PHI had a lower incidence of CHE for all thresholds than those without. Meanwhile, for the 10% threshold, the incidence became significantly lower, by 0.59 times and (Berkowitz & Johnson, ) 0.60 times, respectively, if householders had higher education and income levels. Moreover, when the threshold level was raised to 20%, the incidence of CHE was higher by 8.71 times if the householders are female, and the incidence was lower by 0.84 times if the householders did not have a spouse (Table ).…”

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“…As such, cancers result in a great burden of health expenditures and have a significant impact on household income (Berkowitz & Johnson, ). The concept of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) is a typical indicator that measures households’ economic burden.…”

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Private health insurance and catastrophic health expenditures of households with cancer patients in South Korea

2018

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This study examines the effects of private health insurance (PHI) on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) for households with a patient with cancer. This study uses 1-year data from 2013 and households with cancer patients as the unit of research rather than individual household members. The sample thus includes 468 households with members with cancer who also used emergency, outpatient and hospitalisation services. Households with PHI had a lower incidence of CHE for all thresholds than those without did. At the 10% threshold, the incidence became significantly lower, by 0.59 and 0.60 times, respectively, if householders had higher education and income levels. Moreover, the incidence of CHE was higher by 8.71 times if the householders are female, and lower by 0.84 times if the householders did not have a spouse at the 20% threshold. From the analysis of households with cancer patients that hold PHI as the key variable, these households showed a lower incidence of CHE than the others did. PHI provides healthcare payments not secured through national health insurance (NHI) and protects households from health expenditures, thereby complementing NHI to a certain degree.

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Private health insurance and catastrophic health expenditures of households with cancer patients in South Korea

2018

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“…Only two studies we identified explicitly decompose health measures into physical and mental illness. 60,47 When such distinctions are made, mental illnesses appear to significantly increase the likelihood of labor force exit and disability program application and receipt.…”

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Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression

Conti¹,

Berndt²,

Frank³

2006

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This paper investigates the impact of depression on labor force participation among older workers. Empirically, we use two analytic strategies and rely on a sample drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey. Depression directly and indirectly increases individuals' probability of retiring early and applying for DI benefits, after accounting for other predictors of labor force exit. Accounting for the independent effects of depression, disability associated with physical illness may be smaller than the official statistics suggest. There may be great economic gains in increasing depression treatment awareness and access to treatment for individuals, employers and society.

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“…At the societal level, ill health reduces the labour supply (Berkowitz and Johnson 1974) and impounds considerable resources to the financing of social security benefits (Eurostat 2009). As a consequence, decision makers have devoted much energy to finding ways of increasing the labour market attachment of people with ill health.…”

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Worker adaptation and workplace accommodations after the onset of an illness

Høgelund

Holm

2014

IZA J Labor Policy

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Workers who become work-incapacitated may try to change employer or stay with their current employer in an accommodated job. We study the effect of these strategies on sick-listed workers' employment durations. We use survey and register data of 809 workers. We simultaneously estimate the duration until returning to work and the duration of employment using the timing-of-event approach. We find that workplace accommodations increase employment durations with the current employer. We also find that workers returning to work with a new employer have significantly shorter employment durations than workers returning to work with the current employer (with or without accommodations).

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Health and Labor Force Participation

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Private health insurance and catastrophic health expenditures of households with cancer patients in South Korea

Private health insurance and catastrophic health expenditures of households with cancer patients in South Korea

Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression

Worker adaptation and workplace accommodations after the onset of an illness

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