Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303246 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2409
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6.2 percent lower employment, and a wage penalty of 15 percent five years after diagnosis. Although affected women sort into higher quality jobs post-diagnosis, this is offset by a reduction in working hours. We argue that the hours reduction is more likely driven by an increase in the time preference rate, meaning that patients increasingly value the present over the future, rather than by an incapacitation effect or employer discrimination.
Subjects: 
Breast cancer
labor supply
health shocks
time discounting
JEL: 
I10
J22
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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