Informality and Protection from Health Shocks: Lessons from Yemen
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The informal sector is generally believed to be vulnerable to various risks including health shocks due to limited access to social insurance. This paper examines the relationship between informality and protection from health risks in Yemen. The formal sector includes the pension covered wage employed and largely overlaps with public employment in Yemen, while the informal sector includes the wage employed without social insurance and the self employed. Health (and nutrition), access to health service for women and children, and household health expenditures are investigated separately for urban and rural areas. The results indicate that, even after accounting for socio-economic status, water supply and quality conditions, risky behavior patterns, and unobserved heterogeneity, the formal sector is in general slightly better protected than their informal counterparts. However, there exists large heterogeneity across employment types and locality of residence (urban and rural areas). JEL Codes: J2, I1
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