Estimating the impact of diabetes on employment in Taiwan

Shin-Jong Lin ()
Additional contact information
Shin-Jong Lin: Department of Economics, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan

Economics Bulletin, 2011, vol. 31, issue 4, 3089-3102

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of diabetes on employment based on the 2005 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan using a recursive bivariate probit model. The findings show that diabetes has a negative and significant effect on employment, and that the magnitude is larger for men than for women. The results of this study also suggest that neglecting the potential endogeneity of diabetes will lead to an underestimation of the negative impact of diabetes on employment.

Keywords: diabetes; employment; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I0 J0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11-09
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2011/Volume31/EB-11-V31-I4-P280.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-11-00460

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().