eprintid: 10117420
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/11/74/20
datestamp: 2021-10-11 14:24:49
lastmod: 2021-10-12 21:51:17
status_changed: 2021-10-11 14:24:49
type: working_paper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Conti, G
creators_name: Ginja, R
creators_name: Narita, R
title: The value of free health insurance schemes in developing countries
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F24
keywords: Innovación social, Políticas públicas, Salud
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abstract: Brazil began the implementation of SUS (Universal Health Insurance) in 1988. To the extent that SUS broke the link between employment contract and health insurance, it may have changed the incentives for individuals to participate in the labor market and in which sector to work (formal or informal). Our goal is to study the labor market impacts of SUS. We do so by structurally estimating a labor market model that allows us to address three main questions (i) How much of the increase in informality in Brazil is due to the introduction of non-contributory health insurance? (ii) How much do individuals value health insurance? And (iii) What are the welfare impacts of increases in the value of non-contributory health insurance? The model is fitted to Brazilian employment data and used to simulate changes in welfare, employment, informality and wages of different noncontributory health insurance policies.
date: 2019-12-13
publisher: Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
official_url: https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/1519
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1836823
lyricists_name: Conti, Gabriella
lyricists_id: GCONT23
actors_name: Conti, Gabriella
actors_id: GCONT23
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: restricted
series: CAF Working Paper
number: 2019/11
place_of_pub: Caracas, Venezuela
pages: 30
citation:        Conti, G;    Ginja, R;    Narita, R;      (2019)    The value of free health insurance schemes in developing countries.                    (CAF Working Paper  2019/11). Development Bank of Latin America (CAF): Caracas, Venezuela.      
 
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