Does health insurance affect illness-related absenteeism at the workplace in Ghana?

Frank Darkwah ()
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Frank Darkwah: The University of Adelaide

Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2024, vol. 26, issue 2, No 10, 555-581

Abstract: Abstract The paper investigates whether health insurance expansion affects illness-related absenteeism at the workplace among workers in Ghana. The paper employs household- level data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey and applies count data estimation techniques to investigate how health insurance affects the expected time, workers spend out of work, due to illness. The results show that health insurance reduces the extent of illness-related absenteeism at the workplace. The decline in the extent of illness-related absenteeism at the workplace is observed for insured workers in both sectors of the economy, but the reduction is lower in the informal sector than in the formal sector. The reduction is also lower for younger than older workers.

Keywords: Health insurance; Health; Illness-related absenteeism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I15 I18 J46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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