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Title: Identifying the effects of health insurance mandates on small business employment and pay

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: The cost of employee health insurance is steadily increasing, due in part to state mandates that require insurance policies to cover additional medical treatments and services. A preva- lent empirical finding is that these mandates have uncertain labor market effects, as most results are statistically insignificant. We determine several reasons for the imprecision in this area of research: small sample bias, heterogeneity in the effects of mandates, and collinearity of mandate legislation. Empirically addressing these factors with population-level data on small business employment, we identify significant employment effects for several mandates and illustrate how pervasively these issues plague identification.

Url: http://people.tamu.edu/~jmeer/Meer_West_Mandates_111130.pdf

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Authors: Meer, Jonathan; West, Jeremy

Publisher: Texas A&M University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States