Effect of the Promulgation of the New Migrant's Employment Law on Migrant Insurance Coverage in Thailand: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 2016-2018

This study explores the effect of the recently enacted Foreigners' Working Management Emergency Decree, 2017 on migrant insurance coverage between January 2016 and December 2018. We employed an interrupted time series (ITS) model to estimate the level and trend changes of the number of migrants...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 7; p. 4384
Main Authors Witthayapipopsakul, Woranan, Kosiyaporn, Hathairat, Uansri, Sonvanee, Suphanchaimat, Rapeepong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 06.04.2022
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Subjects
Commerce
Employment
Health insurance
Humans
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
International trade
Internationality
Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Labor law
Migrant workers
Migrants
Thailand
Time series
Transients and Migrants
Thailand
Bangkok Thailand
insurance
interrupted time series
migrant
Thailand
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Summary:This study explores the effect of the recently enacted Foreigners' Working Management Emergency Decree, 2017 on migrant insurance coverage between January 2016 and December 2018. We employed an interrupted time series (ITS) model to estimate the level and trend changes of the number of migrants enrolled in Social Health Insurance (SHI) for formal workers and the Health Insurance Card Scheme (HICS) for other migrants. Before the Decree's implementation, SHI covered roughly a third of the total migrants holding work permits, while HICS covered over half of migrants in the country. We found that the new employment law contributed to a rise in the volume of SHI members and a decline in the HICS members in the long run, which might be partly due to a switch from the HICS members in the formal sector to the SHI, as originally intended by the law. In addition to the law effect, some coincided political force from international trade partners and supranational organizations might also contribute to the progress in protecting the rights of migrant workers. The long-term monitoring of migrant insurance coverage and a mapping against the changes in migrant-related laws and contexts are recommended.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph19074384