Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks

• Tác giả: Rachel Heath
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 322.2 Labor movements and groups
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 325078
• Chủ đề: 1. HEALTH SHOCK; 2. LABOR MARKET; 3. LABOR SUPPLY; 5. URBAN LABOR

Tóm tắt

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is unexpectedly ill. The paper provides suggestive evidence that these effects are strongest among very risk averse men, men in poorer households, and men who are the highest earners in their household. By contrast, women display a net zero response to another worker's illness, even women who are the highest earners in their household.