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Health Insurance Coverage and Entrepreneurship

N J. Wellington
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Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 465-478, 2001

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This article estimates the importance of health insurance coverage on the probability of self-employment. Using data from the 1993 Current Population Survey (CPS), the author focuses on the impact of having health insurance through one`s spouse on the likelihood of self-employment. The best estimates suggest that a guaranteed alternative source of health insurance would increase the probability of self-employment between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points for husbands and 1.2 and 4.6 percentage points for wives. The author`s more conservative estimates suggest that universal coverage could increase the percentage of self-employed in the workforce by 2 to 3.5 percentage points.

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Date posted: February 29, 2008 ; Last revised: February 29, 2008

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Wellington, N J., Health Insurance Coverage and Entrepreneurship (October 2001). Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 465-478, 2001. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=904703

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