Shawa Ken Chamuva, Hollingsworth Bruce, Zucchelli Eugenio
Regional Economic and Social Analysis Unit (RESA), International Labour Organization (ILO), Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), Bangkok, Thailand.
Division of Health Research, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.
Health Econ Rev. 2024 Sep 17;14(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s13561-024-00548-w.
There is sparse evidence on the joint effects of ill-health, health shocks and social protection on the intensive margin of labour supply, particularly in developing countries. We interact ill-health and health shocks with access to social protection and estimate their joint effects on weekly hours of work.
We employ a zero-inflated Poisson model to assess joint effects of ill-health, health shocks and social protection on weekly hours of work exploiting pooled repeated cross-sectional data from Malawi.
We find that overall, individuals who suffered from ill-health or a health shock, including an illness/injury, a hospital admission or a chronic illness and benefited from social protection, reduced their weekly hours of work.
The study provides novel empirical evidence on the potential joint effects of ill-health, health shocks and social protection on the intensive margin of labour supply, shedding light on the role social protection can play in developing countries.
关于健康不佳、健康冲击和社会保护对劳动力供给集约边际的联合影响的证据稀少,尤其是在发展中国家。我们将健康不佳和健康冲击与获得社会保护的机会进行交互,并估计它们对每周工作时长的联合影响。
我们采用零膨胀泊松模型,利用马拉维的汇总重复横截面数据,评估健康不佳、健康冲击和社会保护对每周工作时长的联合影响。
我们发现,总体而言,那些健康不佳或遭受健康冲击(包括疾病/受伤、住院或慢性病)并受益于社会保护的个人,减少了他们的每周工作时长。
该研究提供了关于健康不佳、健康冲击和社会保护对劳动力供给集约边际的潜在联合影响的新实证证据,揭示了社会保护在发展中国家可以发挥的作用。