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Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either in lower wages … wages, we document in this paper a significant effect on work hours as well. Using data from the CPS and the SIPP, we show …
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Security tax base because they influence the distribution of money wages above and below the taxable maximum amount. This … disproportionate downward pressure on money wages below the taxable maximum …
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This paper discusses the pure static price effects which are engendered by tax preferences for nonwage compensation. Section II demonstrates that, because of these price effects, optimal consumption bundles will contain larger quantities of the goods included in nonwage compensation, and smaller...
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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...
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between cash wages and other benefits. Under such an arrangement, higher health insurance premiums must induce changes in the … composition of total compensation -- either in lower after-tax wages or in decreased contributions to other benefits. The results … suggest that about two-thirds of the premium increase is financed out of cash wages and the remaining one-thirds is financed …
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We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …
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