| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, the developments in society and technology have brought prosperity. However, pressure of work and the change in diet have put more and more people under the threat of physical and mental diseases. The number of suffering from chronic diseases is increasing and the symptoms of chronic diseases are various.
In 1995, there was a sudden increase in dialysis population. One of the reasons is the implementation of the National Health Insurance system, which offered copayment exemptions, making most patients with chronic kidney diseases able to afford the treatment. The other reason is that chronic kidney diseases are the common symptoms of many other chronic diseases, which increases the number of dialysis patients. Dialysis not only leads to changes in physical health but also reduces patients’ willingness and ability to work.
In this study, we used the national healthy insurance database published by the National Institutes of Health, using 2000 and 2005 million sample files to select patients who had renal dialysis between 1996 and 2013, labor insurance as the experimental group and civil servant insurance as the control group. DID was used to analyze the influence on labor participation and income of dialysis patients.
The study shows that dialysis does have a negative impact on the employment of dialysis patients who have survived dialysis. Compared to the dialysis patients with labor insurance, the employment rate of those with civil servant insurance declines by 11.68% in the first year and by 15.72% in the third year. As for the income level and change rate, both of which do not decline obviously with the extension of time for dialysis. In addtion, because of their health condition, men are more likely than women to quit their iob. But the situation is not obvious. | en_US |