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Title: Minimum Wages, Employer-Provided Health Insurance, and the Non-discrimination Law

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This article exploits cross-state variation in minimum wages to investigate theimpact of minimum wage changes on employer-provided health insurance. Incontrast to the existing empirical literature, this article considers an environmentwhere some firms are constrained by non-discrimination laws that govern the provisionof health insurance. For these firms, minimum wage changes do not reducethe probability that workers will receive employer-provided health insurance. Forfirms not covered by the non-discrimination law, and free to tailor their fringebenefits, low-skilled workers experience a disproportionate reduction in the availabilityand generosity of health insurance after a minimum wage increase.

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Authors: Marks, Mindy S.

Periodical (Full): Industrial Relations

Issue: 2

Volume: 50

Pages: 241-262

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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