Health Insurance and Self-Employment
Evidence from Massachusetts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4573477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaotong Niu (0000-0002-6238-683X, Xiaotong Niu is an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1235-1273 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793914546302 |
| OpenAlex | W2145717725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
Previous studies have found that health insurance is an important component of workers' labor market decisions. In this article, the author studies the effect of health insurance availability and price on the likelihood of self-employment by examining the Massachusetts (MA) health care reform enacted in 2006. A model of compensating differentials predicts that the effect of the MA reform on the likelihood of self-employment is theoretically ambiguous because different components of the reform should have opposing effects. For a sample from the Current Population Survey, the reform leads to a large and significant increase in health insurance coverage, and it increases the likelihood of self-employment by 0.71 percentage points, or an 8.4% increase from the pre-reform average in MA. The estimated positive effect on the likelihood of self-employment persists, though decreases, in the long run. The empirical evidence suggests that a part of the decline is coming from the opposing effects of various components of the reform
Actuarial science · Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health insurance · Health reform · Labour economics · Population · Sample (material) · Self-employment · Self-insurance · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |