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

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This paper exploits cross-state variation in minimum wages to investigate the impact of minimumwage changes on employer-provided health insurance. In contrast to the existing empiricalliterature, I consider an environment where some firms are constrained by nondiscriminationlaws that govern the provision of health insurance. For these firms, minimum wage changes donot reduce the probability that workers will receive employer-provided health insurance. Forfirms not covered by the nondiscrimination law, and free to tailor their fringe benefits, lowskilledworkers experience a disproportionate reduction in the availability and generosity ofhealth insurance after a minimum wage increase.

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Authors: Marks, Mindy S.

Publisher: University of California, Riverside

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Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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