Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in whic...
Main Authors: | Heath, Rachel, Mansuri, Ghazala, Rijkers, Bob |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2019
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/203631571687687334/Labor-Supply-Responses-to-Health-Shocks-Evidence-from-High-Frequency-Labor-Market-Data-from-Urban-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32619 |
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