TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage
T2 - Are bad jobs getting worse?
AU - Farber, Henry S.
AU - Levy, Helen
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Bill Bortz, David Cutler, Michael Gibbs, Jonathan Gruber, Michael Lettau, Doug Staiger, participants in the 1998 American Compensation Association Academic Research Conference, participants in the Princeton University labor lunch and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. Farber thanks the AARP for financial support of an earlier version of this work.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - We examine whether the decline in the availability of employer-provided health insurance is a phenomenon common to all jobs or is concentrated only on certain jobs. We find that declines in own-employer insurance coverage over the 1988-1997 period are driven primarily by declines in takeup for long-term full-time workers and declines in eligibility for new and part-time workers. We also look at trends by workers' education level, and see how much of the decline in is offset by an increase in coverage through a spouse’s policy.
AB - We examine whether the decline in the availability of employer-provided health insurance is a phenomenon common to all jobs or is concentrated only on certain jobs. We find that declines in own-employer insurance coverage over the 1988-1997 period are driven primarily by declines in takeup for long-term full-time workers and declines in eligibility for new and part-time workers. We also look at trends by workers' education level, and see how much of the decline in is offset by an increase in coverage through a spouse’s policy.
KW - Employer-sponsored health insurance
KW - Nonwage compensation
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U2 - 10.1016/S0167-6296(99)00027-2
DO - 10.1016/S0167-6296(99)00027-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 10947573
AN - SCOPUS:0033988707
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 19
SP - 93
EP - 119
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
IS - 1
M1 - 646
ER -