The impact of health status and smoking behaviour on Indonesian labor wage
In this research, we try to estimate the relationship between health status and smoking behaviour on the labour wage in Indonesia. We investigate using <em>Indonesian Family Life Survey</em> (IFLS) data and <em>two-step Heckman correction </em>to deal with<em> sample se...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Islam Indonesia
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Economic Journal of Emerging Markets |
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| Online Access: | http://jurnal.uii.ac.id/index.php/JEP/article/view/4447 |
| Summary: | In this research, we try to estimate the relationship between health status and smoking behaviour on the labour wage in Indonesia. We investigate using <em>Indonesian Family Life Survey</em> (IFLS) data and <em>two-step Heckman correction </em>to deal with<em> sample selection bias. </em>We found that there is significance relationships between all socioeconomic variables and wage both for smokers and non-smokers. The interesting thing is that the effect on wage is less for smokers than non-smokers. |
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| ISSN: | 2086-3128 2502-180X |