Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: García-Gómez, Pilar
Author-Email: garciagomez@ese.eur.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Author-Name: Labeaga, José M.
Author-Email: labeaga@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT/MGSoG, Maastricht University, and UNED, Madrid
Author-Name: Oliva, Juan
Author-Email: Juan.OlivaMoreno@uclm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha
Title: Employment and wages of people living with HIV/AIDS
Abstract: The therapeutic advances that have taken place since the mid 1990s have 
	 profoundly affected the situation of people living with HIV/AIDS, not 
	 only in terms of life expectancy and quality of life but also 
	 socio-economically. This has numerous effects on different aspects of 
	 the patients' life and, especially, on their working life. We analyse in 
	 this paper labour force participation and wages of people living with 
	 HIV/AIDS in Spain. We select a control group from the general 
	 population. We find that the employment probability decreases by 16.4 
	 percentage points among asymptomatic HIV patients, by 22.5 percentage 
	 points among symptomatic HIV patients, and as much as by 41.3 percentage 
	 points if the person is in the AIDS phase. In addition, wages of HIV 
	 patients are from 9 to 34 per cent (if infected by Intravenous Drug Use) 
	 lower. Gender, educational attainment, unearned income, HIV clinical 
	 indicators and number of household members are the main determinants of 
	 the employment probability of HIV patients. On the other hand, wages do 
	 not play a significant role in employment decisions of these 
	 individuals.
Classification-JEL: I10, J20
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, labour supply, wages, unearned income 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 043
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2012/wp2012-043.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2012043