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Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana / Heath, Rachel.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Heath, Rachel.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health and Poverty.
- Health Economics and Finance.
- Health Shock.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Labor Market.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Supply.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Urban Labor.
- Local Subjects:
- Health and Poverty.
- Health Economics and Finance.
- Health Shock.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Labor Market.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Supply.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Urban Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (74 pages)
- Other Title:
- Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is unexpectedly illustrations The paper provides suggestive evidence that these effects are strongest among very risk averse men, men in poorer households, and men who are the highest earners in their household. By contrast, women display a net zero response to another worker's illness, even women who are the highest earners in their household.
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