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Title: Has the Affordable Care Act Led to More Part-Time Work?

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: The employer mandate within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a source of considerable controversy. The mandate requires employers with more than fifty full-time equivalent employees to provide healthcare coverage to all employees working more than thirty hours per week or to face a fine of at least $2000. It is predicted by some to create a large incentive for businesses to shift towards more part-time employment to avoid these fines. Because small to medium sized firms prior to the ACA were less likely to offer health insurance and tended to have offered less generous coverage, it is thought that the ACA would more likely impact these employers most. Employees from these firms form the group most likely treated by the ACA. In contrast, since most large firms self-insure and offered qualified insurance packaged even prior to the ACA, these firms are thought to not be directly impacted by ACA requirements and hence provide a comparison sample. Using these two in a difference-in-differnce model and data from the March Current Population Survey from 2005 and 2013, I find no change in part-time employment as a result of the passage of the ACA at an aggregate level, and find few meaningful changes within any demographic groups.

Url: http://economics.nd.edu/assets/134205/has_the_affordable_care_act_led_to_more_part_time_work.pdf

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Authors: Durkin, Conor

Publisher: University of Notre Dame

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Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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