Does it pay to pay for health? How health expenditure translates into GDP growth in OECD countries

• Autorzy: Michał Kowalczuk , Andrzej Torój

Warianty tytułu

O wpływie wydatków zdrowotnych na PKB w państwach OECD

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We estimate the impact of health expenditure on GDP in high-income countries (OECD sample) by adding more economic structure of theoretical transmission channels from health spending to productive capacity of the economy, as compared to reduced-form regressions widespread in the literature. Our approach is based on three separate panel regressions, simulating the effect of presenteeism and absenteeism (via labour productivity), long-term working disability (via employment rate) and mortality (via probability of death during working age). In all three cases, health expenditure has turned out to act in a GDP-improving, statistically significant way.(original abstract)

Szacujemy wpływ wydatków zdrowotnych na PKB w próbie państw OECD, uzupełniając powszechne w literaturze przedmiotu modele w formie zredukowanej o pełniejsze odzwierciedlenie ekonomicznych kanałów wpływu wydatków zdrowotnych na potencjał gospodarki. Nasze podejście bazuje na trzech osobnych równaniach regresji panelowej, odzwierciedlających efekt "prezenteizmu" i "absenteizmu" (przez wydajność pracy), długotrwałej niezdolności do pracy (przez stopę zatrudnienia) oraz zgonów (przez prawdopodobieństwo zgonu w wieku produkcyjnym). We wszystkich trzech przypadkach wydatki zdrowotne oddziałują na PKB w statystycznie istotny, dodatni sposób. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Gross domestic product (GDP); Expenditures on health care; Economy

PL

Produkt krajowy brutto (PKB); Wydatki na ochronę zdrowia; Gospodarka

• Czasopismo: Roczniki Kolegium Analiz Ekonomicznych / Szkoła Główna Handlowa
• Rocznik: 2015
• Numer: nr 39 IV Ogólnopolska konferencja Modelowanie danych panelowych : teoria i praktyka
• Strony: 103--117

Twórcy

autor

Michał Kowalczuk

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

autor

Andrzej Torój

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

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