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KMID : 0613620100300020557
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Health Social Welfare Review
2010 Volume.30 No. 2 p.557 ~ p.580
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Analysis of the Employment Effects of the Attraction of Foreign Patients to Korea
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Lee Sang-Won
Cho Min-Soo
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Abstract
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Due to the change in Medical Service Law in 2009, Korea has attracted foreign patients substantially, which makes the number of foreign patients treated in korea in 2009 increase by 33.6% compared to the previous year, and makes health-related travel revenue increase by 31.1%. In spite of the significant performances of the new policy of attracting foreign patients, there is no serious research about the economic effects of the policy change.
This paper is intended to analyze the induced income and employment spill-over effects of the attraction of foreign patients in 2009 upon the industries other than the health and medical service industry, and analyze the actual internal employment effects of the attraction of foreign patients upon the health and medical service industry. First, the analysis of the induced income and employment spill-over effects of the attraction of foreign patients in 2009 upon the industries other than the health and medical service industry is done using the Input-Output Analysis(I-O Analysis). Second, the analysis of the actual internal employment effects of the attraction of foreign patients upon the health and medical service industry is done based on the Difference in Differences Method(DDM).
The main results of I-O analysis are that the production induced effect amounts to 152.47 billion Won, and the job induced effect is about 1,525.7 persons, and the employment induced effect is about 1,060.9 persons. Further, in case of the employment induced effect, the primary direct effect upon the health and medical service industry is greater than the secondary indirect effect upon the other industries. However, in case of both the job induced effect and the production induced effect, the secondary effect is far greater than the primary effect, which implies that the policy of attracting foreign patients has profound effects upon the whole economy.
Finally, the results of DDM analysis tell us that the registered hospitals which are allowed to treat foreign patients have statistically significant positive employment effects compared to the non-registered hospitals, which also implies that the policy of attracting foreign patients has actual positive employment effects.
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KEYWORD
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the Policy of Attracting Foreign Patients, Inter-industry Analysis, Difference in Deferences
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