Measuring the Effect of Chinese Residents' Health on Labor Force Participation——An Empirical Analysis Based on Multi-dimensional Health Indicators
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摘要: 居民健康对劳动参与的影响至关重要。国内相关研究只使用了自我评价的一般健康状况来衡量健康水平,然而健康是多维的,该指标可能未能全面度量我国居民真实健康水平对劳动参与的影响。为了克服这个问题,本文还同时使用短期疾病冲击、疾病史、身体质量指数、营养摄入等多个健康指标。结果表明,自我评价的一般健康状况没能完全揭示我国居民真实健康水平对劳动参与的影响,包括其在内的各个健康指标均为此可以提供相对独立的信息。Abstract: Residents' health is extremely significant for their labor force participation.Domestic relevant research only adopts the self-reported General Health Status (GHS) as the measure of health level, but health is multi-dimensional;therefore self-reported health may not be able to completely measure the effect of Chinese residents' true health on labor force participation.To overcome this problem, this paper utilizes multi-dimensional health indicators, such as GHS, short-term disease, disease history, Body Mass Index (BMI) and nutrition intake.Our result reveals that self-reported GHS is indeed not an accurate measure of true health level to measure the effect of Chinese residents' true health on labor force participation, and different health indicators including self-reported GHS have relatively independent health information concerning its effect on labor force participation.
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Key words:
- health /
- disease /
- nutrition /
- labor force participation
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