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100			_aFrank Darkwah _948824
245			_aDoes health insurance affect illness-related absenteeism at the workplace in Ghana?
260			_aJournal of Social and Economic Development
300			_a26(2), Aug, 2024: p.555-581
520			_aThe paper investigates whether health insurance expansion affects illness-related absenteeism at the workplace among workers in Ghana. The paper employs household- level data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey and applies count data estimation techniques to investigate how health insurance affects the expected time, workers spend out of work, due to illness. The results show that health insurance reduces the extent of illness-related absenteeism at the workplace. The decline in the extent of illness-related absenteeism at the workplace is observed for insured workers in both sectors of the economy, but the reduction is lower in the informal sector than in the formal sector. The reduction is also lower for younger than older workers.- Reproduced https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40847-023-00256-x
650			_aHealth insurance, Health, Illness-related absenteeism. _948825
773			_aJournal of Social and Economic Developmen
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