TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract An adverse health event can affect women’s work capacity as they need time to recover. The institutional framework in the Netherlands provides employment protection during the first two years after the diagnosis. In this study, we have assessed the extent to which women’s employment is affected in the short- and long term by an adverse health event. We have used administrative Dutch data which follow women aged 25 to 55 years for four years after a medical diagnosis. We found that diagnosed women start leaving employment during the protection period and four years later they were about one percentage point less likely to be employed. Women in permanent employment did not reduce their employment during the protection period and reduced their employment with less than 0.5 percentage points thereafter. Furthermore, we found minor adjustments in the working hours in the short term and no adjustments in the long term. Lastly, we found that for wages, and not for employment and hours, adjustments could be related to the severity of the health condition: women diagnosed with temporary health conditions experienced a short-term wage penalty of about 0.5–1.7 percent and those diagnosed with chronic and incapacitating conditions experienced a long-term wage penalty of about 0.5 percent, while women diagnosed with some chronic and nonincapacitating conditions, such as respiratory conditions, experienced no wage changes in the short or long term.
VL  - 47
SN  - 978-1-78973-861-2, 978-1-78973-862-9/0147-9121
DO  - 10.1108/S0147-912120190000047002
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-912120190000047002
AU  - Kambourova Zornitza
AU  - Hassink Wolter
AU  - Kalwij Adriaan
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Women’s Labor Market Participation After an Adverse Health Event
T2  - Health and Labor Markets
T3  - Research in Labor Economics
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 25
EP  - 70
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -