This paper investigates to what extent psychiatric disorders and mental distress affect labor market outcomes among ethnic minorities of Latino and Asian descent, most of whom are immigrants. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study, we examine the labor market effects of...

In many developed countries, budgetary pressures have made government turn to private insurance as a means of reducing pressure on their public health system. Between 1997 and 2000 the Australian government implemented a series of financial incentives for supplementary private health insurance,...