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We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the … labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely …
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transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage … rates into group differences in transition rates into and out of health insurance coverage. The low rate of health insurance … coverage among African-Americans is due almost entirely to higher annual rates of losing health insurance than whites. Among …
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Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might … reflect their relative preferences for jobs offering health insurance. We estimate an endogenous switching wage equation model …
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declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii …
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We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on … the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a …-tax health insurance premium on the entry rate, with no effect on exits from self-employment or the likelihood of being self-employed. …
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This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data … point (2.12%) reduction in the probability that men have health insurance; this effect is strongest among college …, lost health insurance due to a higher unemployment rate alone during the 2007-09 recession. We conclude with a discussion …
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The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood … without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the … a full-insurance paradigm that includes all 4 measures of insurance as interacting components, and analyzing their …
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central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …
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This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … insurance if shocks are observable. Depending on insurance design, there is also evidence for persistence of this effect even if …
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Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
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