The influences of health on labour market outcomes in Canada : analyses from the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey

Abstract

This thesis addresses the effects of seventeen chronic health conditions as defined by the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey on labour market outcomes as measured by their labour force status: employed full-time, employed part-time, and not working. The estimation employed a multinomial logistic regression, which was then used to estimate the marginal effects of each health condition, as well in simulations that predicted probabilities of each employment outcome in the presence and absence of each condition. Further probabilities were estimated to differentiate the effects of major health conditions among demographic variables and levels of educations. Findings include that women are relatively more likely than men to exit full-time employment after the onset of a health condition; additionally, those who are younger and have higher levels of education are also more likely to maintain a full-time employment status relative to individuals who are older or less educated, and there are no differences in the impact of health conditions between immigrants and the native-born.