García Gómez Pilar, López Nicolás Angel
Departament d' Economia i Empresa and CRES, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Health Econ. 2006 Sep;15(9):997-1009. doi: 10.1002/hec.1151.
This paper investigates the relationship between health shocks and labour outcomes in the Spanish population using the European Community Household Panel. In order to control for the non-experimental nature of the data we use difference in difference and matching techniques. Our results suggest that there is a significant effect running from health to the probability of employment and to labour income. Moreover, while we cannot investigate the influence of childhood events and other phenomena that trigger long run causal pathways from socio-economic status to health, we are able to find a significant reduction in the probability of reporting good health in individuals who transit out of employment in comparison with individuals who are otherwise identical in terms of reported health status at the time of the transition.
本文利用欧洲共同体家庭调查（European Community Household Panel）研究了西班牙人口中健康冲击与劳动成果之间的关系。为了控制数据的非实验性质，我们使用了差分和匹配技术。我们的结果表明，从健康到就业概率和劳动收入存在显著影响。此外，虽然我们无法研究童年事件以及其他引发从社会经济地位到健康的长期因果路径的现象的影响，但我们能够发现，与在转变时报告的健康状况相同的个体相比，退出就业的个体报告健康良好的概率显著降低。
