Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33540 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1577
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely to dampen the labor supply response. Second, we empirically evaluate this relationship using primary data. The results from our analysis find that - as the model suggests is likely - health shocks decrease labor supply to a greater extent among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment-contingent health insurance appears to create incentives to remain working and to work at a greater intensity when faced with a serious illness.
Subjects: 
health insurance
health shock
cancer
labor supply
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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