The effects of unemployment rate fluctuations on private health insurance coverage in New Zealand

David Chamberlain and Andrea Menclova

New Zealand Economic Papers, 2015, vol. 49, issue 2, 157-170

Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the effect of changes in the unemployment rate on private health insurance coverage of New Zealanders using quarterly national data from 1999 to 2009. A 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a decrease of 9843 lives covered by private health insurance or a 0.32 percentage point decrease in the coverage rate of the total New Zealand population - representing a change of 0.7%-1.0% from the baseline. We also find some evidence of a stronger effect on men and the elderly and of an asymmetric effect on new insurance contracts vs. terminations.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00779954.2013.876699

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