Documents how employment and spending for health care will respond with a distributed lag to inflation and GDP growth …

costs are often correlated with other factors of employment, such as firm size, which can also be correlated with employment … exogenous variation in an instrumental variables (IV) strategy to identify the causal effects of health care costs on employment … of older workers. Using this instrument, I find that increasing health care costs significantly lower men's employment …

attachment. Our results show a significant effect of employment measures as well as insurance coverage types, suggesting a … sizable effect of employment and insurance on Medicare expenditures as well as on total health expenditures and on out … Medicare costs of policies that likely lead to increases in employment and employer provided health insurance coverage among …