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Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among other less-educated groups. These "spillover effects" are difficult to estimate because welfare caseloads decrease in response to improvements in the economy, which leads...

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The Economics of Work and Family

Kimmel, Jean (contributor); Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to … parents successfully integrating work and family priorities), how parents balance time between work and family obligations …, links between women's childbearing and their economic outcomes, the success of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and …

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Mothers' Work and Children's Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform

Johnson, Rucker C.; Kalil, Ariel; Dunifon, Rachel E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

for low-income women to balance work and family requirements. …

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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Health and Wealth of a Nation: Employer-Based Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act

Maxwell, Nan L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This research examines the behaviors of firms with respect to their provision of health care prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) deliberations and uses those behaviors to forecast changes in employer-sponsored health insurance that might occur once the ACA is fully implemented. Addonizio and...

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Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

Kolstad, Jonathan T.; Kowalski, Amanda E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

We model the labor market impact of the key provisions of the national and Massachusetts "mandate-based" health reforms: individual mandates, employer mandates, and subsidies. We characterize the compensating differential for employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) and the welfare impact of...

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The Effect of Medicare Eligibility on Spousal Insurance Coverage

Dillender, Marcus; Mulligan, Karen - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

A majority of married couples in the United States take advantage of the fact that employers often provide health insurance coverage to spouses. When the older spouses become eligible for Medicare, however, many of them can no longer provide their younger spouses with coverage. In this paper, we...

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Use of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Benefits by Unemployment Insurance Applicants in Michigan during the Great Recession

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Ken - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

During the Great Recession, both the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) program experienced dramatic increases in participation. Using Michigan program administrative data on all SNAP (2006-2011) recipients and all UI (2001-2010)...

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Growing State Economies: How Taxes and Public Services Affect Private-Sector Performance

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Issues Raised by Welfare Reform in the United States

Straits, Robert A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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