Patricia Moreno-Mencia, Ana Fernández-Sainz, Juan M Rodríguez-Póo
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Depression is a common disorder that impacts on individuals' ability to perform daily activities, including those required for working. People with poor health tend to have problems needing medical care and therefore need time away from their work. This paper considers a structural model of labor absenteeism, considering the effect of depression. Our objective is to estimate the effects that depressive symptoms (among other factors) have on absenteeism while avoiding inconsistency in estimators due to sample selection and endogenous regressor. We are unwilling to impose strong assumptions, which are sometimes not required by theory, so our model is semiparametric. Based on microdata from the European Health Survey in Spain, our results indicate that depressive symptoms have a negative effect on working time and increase absenteeism. We conclude that depressed workers lose on average around 12 more days per year than non depressed ones. Levels of absenteeism are also estimated to be higher on average among obese people and among older people (the effect of age is positive). On the other hand, non-college education, being male and being self-employed are factors related to lower levels of absenteeism.
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The focus of the International Journal of Health Economics and Management is on health care systems and on the behavior of consumers, patients, and providers of such services. The links among management, public policy, payment, and performance are core topics of the relaunched journal. The demand for health care and its cost remain central concerns. Even as medical innovation allows providers to improve the lives of their patients, questions remain about how to efficiently deliver health care services, how to pay for it, and who should pay for it. These are central questions facing innovators, providers, and payers in the public and private sectors. One key to answering these questions is to understand how people choose among alternative arrangements, either in markets or through the political process. The choices made by healthcare managers concerning the organization and production of that care are also crucial. There is an important connection between the management of a health care system and its economic performance. The primary audience for this journal will be health economists and researchers in health management, along with the larger group of health services researchers. In addition, research and policy analysis reported in the journal should be of interest to health care providers, managers and policymakers, who need to know about the pressures facing insurers and governments, with consequences for regulation and mandates. The editors of the journal encourage submissions that analyze the behavior and interaction of the actors in health care, viz. consumers, providers, insurers, and governments. Preference will be given to contributions that combine theoretical with empirical work, evaluate conflicting findings, present new information, or compare experiences between countries and jurisdictions. In addition to conventional research articles, the journal will include specific subsections for shorter concise research findings and cont ributions to management and policy that provide important descriptive data or arguments about what policies follow from research findings. The composition of the editorial board is designed to cover the range of interest among economics and management researchers.Officially cited as: Int J Health Econ ManagFrom 2001 to 2014 the journal was published as International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. (Articles published in Vol. 1-14 officially cited as: Int J Health Care Finance Econ)
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