Health insurance coverage and firm performance: Evidence using firm level data from Vietnam

Hiroyuki Yamada and Tien Vu

No 16E007, OSIPP Discussion Paper from Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University

Abstract: In literature, there is limited direct evidence regarding the effect of health insurance coverage on firm performance and worker productivity. In this paper, we study the impacts of health insurance on medium and large-scale domestic private firms' performance and productivity in Vietnam, using a large firm level census dataset. We deploy propensity-score matching methods, and find statistically positive health insurance effects on both aggregate profit and profit per worker for both complying and non-complying medium and large-scale firms. Given the full sample results, we recommend an improvement in government monitoring as one of the important policy options to induce medium and large-scale firms to contribute to health insurance premiums for their employees.

Keywords: Health insurance; Medium and large-scale firms; Propensity-score matching; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 I13 I15 I18 O25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2016-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eff, nep-ger, nep-hea, nep-ias and nep-sea
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Journal Article: Health Insurance Coverage and Firm Performance: Evidence Using Firm Level Data from Vietnam (2018)
Working Paper: Health insurance coverage and firm performance: Evidence using firm level data from Vietnam (2016)
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