The Contribution of Health Services to the American Economy

Fuchs, Victor R.

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“…Economists have considered health as human capital for a long time (Mushkin, 1962;Becker, 1964;Fuchs, 1966). Building on human capital theory, Grossman (1972) formulated a formal model to analyze health capital; also see Grossman (2000).…”

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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health - Ten Years after Massive Layoff of SOE’s Workers in China

Liu

Zhao

2011

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs' workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey covering the period from 1991 to 2006. We find that paternal job loss has a significant negative effect on children's health, whilst maternal job loss has no significant effect. The rationale behind the findings is that the income loss resulting from maternal job loss is much smaller; at the same time, the unemployed mothers are likely to increase the time they devote to care of their children, and this may alleviate the negative effect resulting from maternal job loss. Our findings are robust to various specifications.JEL Classification: I12, J63, N35, J13

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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health - Ten Years after Massive Layoff of SOE’s Workers in China

Liu

Zhao

2011

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“…Sociologists and economists have discussed the uncertainty inherent in medical practice (Fox, 1957(Fox, , 1959(Fox, , 1970Arrow, 1963;Fuchs,'1966). Although uncertainty affects both patient and doctor, the competence gap between them means that uncertainty generally is greater for the patient (Parsons, 1969).…”

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The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication

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This paper presents a summary of an on-going research project concerned with doctor-patient communications. Of specific interest are doctors' communications of information about illness to the patient. The communication of information in medical care situations is considered to be, at certain levels, analogous to the purposive, instructional communications in education.Sociological considerations guiding this research are summarized under four headings: (1) problems of uncertainty and power; (2) the definition of information; (3) sociolinguistics and the diffidence of the sick poor; and, (4) ethnomethodology and common sense constructs. The doctor-patient relationship is viewed as a micro-political situation in which information control is used, at least in part, to maintain patterns of dominance and subordination.The overall methodological objective of this research is to develop a research design, linked to these research objectives, which allows reproducible and generalizable conclusions about the informative process in a variety of clinical settings. This preliminary paper includes a discussion of technical problems arising from the study of doctor-patient relationships and communications; preliminary results of studies of non-verbal communication; and, qualitative themes in the informative process.

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“…Like education, health is a key component of human capital (Becker 1964;Fuchs 1966;Grossman 1972). Education and skills, after all, are embedded in people, whose productivity depends on their health.…”

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Employers' Benefits from Workers' Health Insurance

O’Brien

2003

Milbank Quarterly

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Most nonelderly americans receive their health insurance coverage through their workplace. Almost all large firms offer a health insurance plan, and even though they face greater barriers to providing coverage, so do the majority of very small firms. These employment-based plans cover two-thirds of nonelderly Americans and pay most of working families' expenses for health care and about one-quarter of national health spending. Despite employers' role in the health insurance market, however, very little attention has been paid to employers' motivations for providing health insurance to workers. Why do employers offer health insurance to workers? Is it because workers want it? Because their unions demand it? Or do employers offer health benefits to workers because their productivity and profitability depend on it?The standard economic theory of the availability of employer-provided health insurance focuses on worker demand (Cutler 1997;Pauly 1997;Summers 1989). According to that theory, employers are willing to arrange health insurance plans for workers because workers are willing to "buy" that health insurance through wages reduced by the amount of the cost of the insurance. The theory states that rather than receiving additional cash compensation and finding and purchasing health insurance on their own, workers prefer to obtain coverage through their employers and so accept a wage offset to cover the cost of that coverage. This theory has a number of problems, though, not the least of which is that the data

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The Contribution of Health Services to the American Economy

Abstract: I am grateful to Deborah W. Sarachek for the preparation of the bibliography and tables and for numerous contributions to the text. I am also grateful to Dr. Richard H. Kessler for reading the section on medical care, and to Irving Leveson for several useful suggestions.

Cited by 65 publications

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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health - Ten Years after Massive Layoff of SOE’s Workers in China

Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health - Ten Years after Massive Layoff of SOE’s Workers in China

The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication

Employers' Benefits from Workers' Health Insurance

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