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Title: Continuous job lock: employer health insurance contributions and job tenure

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1961118

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Abstract: We estimate the effect of employers providing health insurance and contributing towards health insurance premiums on employee job tenure. Using merged 2008-2018 data from the Job Tenure Supplement and Annual and Social Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, we find that employer health insurance is associated with one additional year of job tenure. We find that a thousand dollar increase in employer contributions to health insurance is associated with at least 83 additional days of job tenure, compared to less than 10 additional days for a thousand dollar increase in wages.

Url: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1961118

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Authors: Bailey, James; Mathes, Michael

Periodical (Full): Applied Economics Letters

Issue: 18

Volume: 29

Pages: 1746-1751

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Health and Health Systems

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