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The Value of Free Health Insurance Schemes in Developing Countries

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  • Conti, Gabriella
  • Ginja, Rita
  • Narita, Renata
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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.

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  • Conti, Gabriella & Ginja, Rita & Narita, Renata, 2019. "The Value of Free Health Insurance Schemes in Developing Countries," Research Department working papers 1519, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
    • Handle: RePEc:dbl:dblwop:1519
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    Innovación social; Políticas públicas; Salud;
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