Relationship Between Health Insurance and Self-employment: A Systematic Review

Hossain, Md. Mobarak (2021): Relationship Between Health Insurance and Self-employment: A Systematic Review.

Abstract

This paper performs a systematic review on whether there is a relationship between health insurance and self-employment. There are three types of findings available regarding this issue in the entrepreneurship literature. First, health insurance clearly plays a vital role when individuals choose to become self-employed. Second, there is some evidence of the effect of health insurance on entrepreneurial choices for some individuals with some demographic characteristics, like married women, students, people with disabilities, etc. Third, the evidence of relationship between health insurance and entrepreneurial choices is anecdotal.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: health insurance, entrepreneurship, self-employment
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I13 - Health Insurance, Public and Private; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J48 - Public Policy

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