The impact of diabetes on labour market outcomes in Mexico: A panel data and biomarker analysis

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Performance of people with diabetes in the labor market: An empirical approach controlling for complications

“…Our findings somehow support those obtained by another study concluding that only in case time since diagnosis of diabetes was greater than 20 years, so older people, wages were reduced (Seuring et al, 2016). The significant role of diabetes as a determinant of (lower) household income only in advanced age could be the result of the diabetes type that these people are more likely to suffer from, diabetes type II.…”

“…Our results confirm the burden of diabetes on income and earnings, which has already widely studied in the literature. Most of the studies conclude that those who have diabetes suffer from decrements in their earnings (Mayfield et al, 1999;Valdmanis et al, 2001;Plaveev et al, 2006;Schofield et al, 2014;Schofield et al, 2015), although some have reported that diabetes has no significant effect on wages (Seuring et al, 2016), which would be contradicted by our findings. Tables S4 and S5 included in the Appendix show the average marginal effects from the ordered probit regression (Model D) on monthly household income for females and males, respectively.…”

“…We improve the existing literature by confirming the key role that clinical and functional complications play when evaluating the impact of diabetes, providing additional explications to the differences between subgroups others than the family history of diabetes (Minor and MacEwan, 2016). Our findings also suggest that diabetes is an essential determinant of lower income and long-term unemployment, contradicting previous authors, who suggested that diabetes has no significant impact on wages (Seuring et al, 2016) and duration of labor outcomes (Vijan et al, 2004) Several implications can be derived from the above findings. First, there seems to be a considerable gap in the duration of unemployment and income between those reporting suffering from diabetes and those who do not.…”

“…Also, the likelihood of having greater income than 2700€ per month is reduced by 3.1 percentage points in case people have diabetes. The differences with regards to the effect of diabetes on income depending on gender was, nevertheless, neglected in a recent study (Seuring et al, 2016), concluding that diabetes had no significant impact on wages, regardless of gender. However, another study contradicts our results.…”

Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: from clinical care to health policy

“…Effects on labourmarket dropout and presenteeism are based on studies from the USA 207,208 and Mexico. 209,210 Although the diversity of sources is larger for absenteeism-with studies from the USA, 211 Mexico, 210 India, 212 Iran, 213 and Namibia 214 -it is unclear to what extent these labour-market effects accurately capture the situation in sub-Saharan Africa. For instance, the combination of limited capabilities for management of blood sugar levels and a shortage of preventive treatment is likely to lead to high rates of severe complications in the long term, hence potentially increasing the rate of labour-force dropout.…”