| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 產業經濟學系碩士班 === 106 === In recent years, due to the rise of cardiovascular diseases and related risk factors, as well as the aging population, the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases continue to grow, in addition to the huge medical expenses that the society must pay. It may have a seriously negative impact on personal productivity, and metabolic syndrome is a strong indicator of whether a person is in a high-risk group who may suffer from cardiovascular disease. Therefore, it of interest to analyze the impact of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease on employment. In view of this, this study analyzes the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data of 2013-2014 wave, by gender. The study subjects are 18 to 65 years old. It anaylzes the impacts under various definitions of labor force. It investigates whether cardiovascular disease has a significant negative impact on employment in the U.S. and how metabolic syndrome affects cardiovascular disease, which in turn affects employment. It uses an trivariate probit model with the instrumental variables, including prevalence rate of diseases and genetic factors.
The results show that cardiovascular disease has a negative impact on employment under labor force definitions I and IV for the male samples. Once suffering from cardiovascular disease, the male employment rate and the labor participation rate will have a 41.23 percentage point and a 43.26 percentage point decrease respectively; However, for the female sample, cardiovascular disease has no significant effect on employment. We also fing that if a person has metabolic syndrome, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in men and women will increase by 6.43 percentage point and 4.40 percentage point, and if a persone can avoid the occurrence of metabolic syndrome, it will alleviate 1.07 percentage point of the negateive effect of cardiovascular disease on employment for men. Both for men and women, the significant positive impact of metabolic syndrome on cardiovascular disease has been confirmed by a t test but has not been confirmed by the trivariate probit model.
In addition, the results also support the hypothesis if men or women have a higher level of education, their chances of suffering cardiovascular disease will decrease. If women have a higher level of education, their chances of having metabolic syndrome will be significantly reduced. Through the improvement of education level, it is expected that they will be equipped with more health knowledge, which can reduce the occurrence of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, and thus improve their labor productivity.
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