The Effect of an Acute Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Kristin Kleinjans and Mona Larsen ()

No 5843, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study how severe acute health shocks affect the probability of not working in the U. S. versus in Denmark. The results not only provide insight into how relative disease risk affects labor force participation at older ages, but also into how different types of health care and health insurance systems affect individual decisions of labor force participation. We find that the effect of an acute health shock on labor force participation is stronger in the U.S. than in Denmark, and provide compelling evidence that this is the result of health care system-related differential mortality and baseline health differences.

Keywords: health care regimes; health shock; work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2011-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-hea, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 136-137,44-51

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