Chronic Diseases and Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt
By causing a sizeable reduction in employment 6 percent and labor supply 19 percent, chronic diseases are responsible for a major efficiency loss in the Egyptian economy. Furthermore the impact of chronic diseases on the labor market is not uniform...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110225134511 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3342 |
| Summary: | By causing a sizeable reduction in
employment 6 percent and labor supply 19 percent, chronic
diseases are responsible for a major efficiency loss in the
Egyptian economy. Furthermore the impact of chronic diseases
on the labor market is not uniformly distributed. The older
and the less educated suffer a larger drop in the
probability of being employed and in their supply of working
hours. The authors estimate the reduced form equations of
individual employment status, labor supply and the usual
wage equation. They control for unobserved ability and
individual preferences by means of a within-siblings
estimator. Measurement errors in our self-reported health
variable have been accounted for. |
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