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Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market : Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform
Kolstad, Jonathan - 2012
We model the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national "mandate … outcomes. Relying on the reform implemented in Massachusetts in 2006, we estimate the empirical analog of our model. We find …-insured in Massachusetts valued ESHI, they were willing to accept lower wages, and the deadweight loss of mandate-based health …
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How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco
Colla, Carrie - 2010
In 2006 San Francisco adopted major health reform, becoming the first city to implement a pay-or-play employer health spending mandate. It also created Healthy San Francisco, a "public option" to promote affordable universal access to care. Using the 2008 Bay Area Employer Health Benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141269
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Wedges, Labor Market Behavior, and Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
Gallen, Trevor - 2013
The Affordable Care Act's taxes, subsidies, and regulations significantly alter terms of trade in both goods and factor markets. We use a multi-sector (intra-national) trade model to predict and quantify consequences of the Affordable Care Act for the incidence of health insurance coverage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071302
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Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform
Aizawa, Naoki - 2013
We present and empirically implement an equilibrium labor market search model where risk averse workers facing medical expenditure shocks are matched with firms making health insurance coverage decisions. Our model delivers a rich set of predictions that can account for a wide variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088674
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Let Them Have Choice : Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange
Dafny, Leemore S. - 2015
Most non-elderly Americans purchase insurance through their employers, which sponsor a limited number of plans. We estimate how much employees would be willing to pay for the right to apply their employer subsidy to the plan of their choosing. We make use of a proprietary dataset containing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039150
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Household Labor Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform
Fang, Hanming - 2019
Health insurance in the United States for the working age population has traditionally been provided in the form of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI). If employers offered ESHI to their employees, they also typically extended coverage to their spouse and dependents. Provisions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861678
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Implicit Budget Deficits : The Case of a Mandated Shift to Community-Rated Health Insurance
Bradford, David F.; Max, Derrick A. - 2021
Since a typical regulatory mandate can be equated in its economic effect to a combination of an expenditure program and a tax program, observers have often suggested that it would serve consistent public policy to bring regulatory decisions into the same budgetary framework. This paper concerns...
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Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance : Evidence from Displaced Workers
Lehrer, Steven F. - 2007
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777450
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Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection : Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform
Hackmann, Martin B. - 2012
introduction of mandated health insurance in Massachusetts. Our test examines changes in the cost of the newly insured relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112415
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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143176