Market power effects on health care workers’ wages Thesis

short description

  • Master's thesis

Thesis author

  • Martínez, Juan Pablo

abstract

  • Labor economists increasingly worry about the salient role that labor demand concentration might have on wages. Employing a unique dataset that covers all Colombian health-related occupations and assuming that services supply is proportional to labor demand, I calculate wages elasticity to health services supply concentration. By means of OLS and IV regressions that exploit variations in the health services provision and insurance market configuration, I show that going from three health services provider to one reduces wages by about 1.28%.

publication date

  • April 8, 2024 4:58 PM

keywords

  • Health care workers
  • Market power
  • Wage

Document Id

  • 07867f6c-5ec3-400d-b519-821db3013e9b