As condições de saúde afetam os rendimentos do trabalho? Evidências para o mercado de trabalho no Brasil

Abstract

The study aims to measure the effect of health conditions on the Brazilian workers income, using PNAD data from 2008. For that, we estimated: the average and quantile treatment effect with correction for the selection bias; the method of Lewbel (2012), that generates internal instruments from heteroscedasticity of residues; and bounds for the treatment effect following Oster (2015). The results show a negative impact of a poor health condition on labor income for all the specifications used, with the greatest impact being suffered by individuals located in the lowest income quantiles.