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The Labor Market Efects of Introducing National Health Insurance: Evidence from Canada

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  • Gruber, J.
  • Hanratty, M.

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The authors study the employment consequences of national health insurance in Canada, using the fact that national health insurance was introduced on a staggered basis across Canadian provinces. They use monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across eight industries and ten provinces over the 1961-75 period. The authors find that employment rose after the introduction of national health insurance; wages increased as well, while average hours were unchanged. They also find lower rates of employment and wage growth in provinces that financed national health insurance with general revenues rather than lump sum premiums and lower rates of wage growth in provinces with high initial levels of private insurance coverage.

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Paper provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics in its series Working papers with number 94-05.

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Length: 31 pages
Date of creation: 1994
Handle: RePEc:mit:worpap:94-05
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Keywords: health policy ; labour market;

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  • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
  • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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  1. Lawrence Summers & Jonathan Gruber & Rodrigo Vergara, 1993. "Taxation and the Structure of Labor Markets: The Case of Corporatism," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 108(2), pages 385-411.
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Cited by:

  1. Jonathan Gruber, 1999. "Social Security and Retirement in Canada," NBER Chapters,in: Social Security and Retirement around the World, pages 73-99 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. World Bank, 2007. "Healthy Development : The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population Results," World Bank Publications, The World Bank, number 6843, July.
  3. Leora Friedberg, 1998. "Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data," NBER Working Papers 6398, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Barkowski, Scott, 2015. "Does Defensive Medicine Reduce Health Care Spending?," MPRA Paper 64318, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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  6. Wagstaff, Adam, 2009. "Social Health Insurance vs. Tax-Financed Health Systems--Evidence from the OECD," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4821, The World Bank.
  7. Jonathan Gruber, 1998. "Health Insurance and the Labor Market," NBER Working Papers 6762, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  9. Husain, Muhammad Jami, 2010. "Contribution of health to economic development: A survey and overview," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), vol. 4, pages 1-52.
  10. Jason Murasko, 2008. "Married Women’s Labor Supply and Spousal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Results from Panel Data," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 29(3), pages 391-406, September.
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  12. Wagstaff, Adam & Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, 2009. "Europe and central Asia's great post-communist social health insurance experiment: Aggregate impacts on health sector outcomes," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(2), pages 322-340, March.
  13. Steven F. Lehrer & Nuno Sousa Pereira, 2008. "Worker Sorting, Health Insurance and Wages: Further Evidence from Displaced Workers in the United States," CEF.UP Working Papers 0804, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
  14. Kamhon Kan & Yen-Ling Lin, 2009. "The labor market effects of national health insurance: evidence from Taiwan," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 22(2), pages 311-350, April.
  15. Haizhen Lin, 2010. "Do Minimum Quality Standards Improve Quality? A Case Study of the Nursing Home Industry," Working Papers 2010-01, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy.

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