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Jennifer Schultz's
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Jennifer Schultz
University of Minnesota - Duluth David J. Doorn
University of Minnesota - Duluth
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The link between rising employer costs for health insurance benefits and demand for part-time workers is investigated using non-public data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey- Insurance Component (MEPS-IC). The MEPS-IC is a nationally representative, annual establishment survey from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Pooling the establishment level data from the MEPS-IC from 1996-2004 and matching with the Longitudinal Business Database and supplemental economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a reduced form model of the percent of total FTE employees working part-time is estimated. This is modeled as a function of the employer health insurance contribution, establishment characteristics, and state-level economic indicators. To account for potential endogeneity, health insurance expenditures are estimated using instrumental variables (IVs). The unit of analysis is establishments that offer health insurance to full-time employees but not part time employees. Conditional on establishments offering health insurance to full-time employees, a 1 percent increase in employer health insurance contributions results in a 3.7 percent increase in part-time employees working at establishments in the U.S.
employer health insurance costs, labor demand, part-time employment
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Roger Feldman
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Economics Jon Christianson
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Jennifer Schultz
University of Minnesota - Duluth
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This study examines the use of information by employees in the Buyers Health Care Action Group, a purchasing coalition of large employers in Minneapolis. BHCAG employers contract directly with multiple health-care provider systems and attempt to inform employees about those choices. Shortly after the close of the 1998 open-enrollment period, a survey of 927 BHCAG employees with single-coverage health insurance was conducted. Seventy-six percent of the employees relied on information from their employer when selecting their current care system. Use of information from the employer was positively related to education and years of residence in the Twin Cities. Previous experience with doctors and hospitals in the care system also was a common information source. Older and low-income workers were more likely to use information from advertisements. The survey results suggest that employers can predict which information sources their employees will use.
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