—“Labor Supply Effects of Universal Health Coverage and Health Cost Inflation ”
主 题： Labor Supply Effects of Universal Health Coverage and Health Cost Inflation
主讲人：日本政策研究学院大学 黄贤国讲师主持人： 周铭山（西南财经大学金融学院副教授 副院长）时 间：2014年9月23日（周二）下午15：45-17：30
地 点：柳林校区颐德楼H109
主办单位：大金融学术研究沙龙、金融学院、科研处
主讲人简介：Xianguo（Jerry） Huang，毕业于上海交通大学，并于2009年取得日本政策研究院大学经济学博士学位，曾参与全球领导力项目、国际发展专业项目等的培训，曾在Environmental and Resource Economics，Asian Journal of Empirical Research等期刊上发表多篇文章。主要研究领域为量化宏观经济学,国际金融,公共金融、应用贝叶斯计量经济学等。
沙龙论文摘要：Developing countries, though characterized with a large informal economy, are not necessarily lack of social security protection. For instance, as part of social security, universal health coverage has been implemented in some developing countries. Allowing labor choice to be elastic, this paper constructs a heterogeneous-agents model in a multi-tier social security system where agents differ by education, employment status and idiosyncratic shocks, in order to analyze the labor supply of such health coverage scheme with various financing assumptions. The model is calibrated to the Thai economy-a developing country with universal health coverage scheme. In the benchmark, the formal workers work longer hours in an average than the informal workers if they have the same level of education, and workers with a lower level of education work longer than those with a high level of education if they are in the same sector. The counterfactual experiments of removing the scheme lead to changes of labor hours by 0.09% to 0.51% and participation rates by -0.07% to 0.47%, depending on the financing assumptions. When there is health cost inflation, financing by capital income tax is better than labor income and consumption taxes to increase labor supply.
