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Title: Does employer-sponsored health insurance reduce job mobility?
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Publication Year: 2009
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Abstract: This paper investigates the extent to which employer-sponsored health insuranceinfluenced job mobility between 1995 and 2007. This time period is an important oneto consider given the recent increase in the cost of private health insurance and theenactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1996. Inaddition, changes in the tax treatment of health insurance for the self-employedoccurred throughout the period. Using data from the 1996-2007 March Supplementsof the Current Population Survey, I find that for married women with employersponsoredinsurance, having an alternative source of coverage increases theirlikelihood of becoming self-employed by 75 percent, while the number of childrenthey have reduces their likelihood of switching jobs by 7 percent per child. Overall, Ifind that having an alternative source of insurance increases the likelihood ofswitching jobs by 9 percent. Finally, I do not find evidence to suggest that job-lockaffects married men.
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Authors: Winfree, Paul L.
Publisher: The Heritage Foundation
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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