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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w3557 |
来源ID | Working Paper 3557 |
The Incidence of Mandated Employer-Provided Insurance: Lessons from Workers' Compensation Insurance | |
Jonathan Gruber; Alan B. Krueger | |
发表日期 | 1990-12-01 |
出版年 | 1990 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Workers' compensation insurance provides cash payments and medical benefits to workers who incur a work-related injury or illness. Many features of the workers' compensation program parallel features of proposed mandated employer-paid health insurance plans. This paper empirically examines the incidence of the workers' compensation program to infer the likely consequences of mandated health insurance proposals. In certain industries, such as trucking and carpentry, workers' compensation insurance costs are quite large, and vary tremendously within states over time, and across states at a moment in time. This variation is used to identify the incidence of the program. Empirical analysis of two data sets suggest that changes in employers' costs of workers' compensation insurance are largely shifted to employees in the form of lower wages. In addition, higher insurance costs are found to have a negative but statistically insignificant effect on employment. The implied elasticity of labor demand from our results is about -.50. |
主题 | Labor Economics |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w3557 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/560833 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jonathan Gruber,Alan B. Krueger. The Incidence of Mandated Employer-Provided Insurance: Lessons from Workers' Compensation Insurance. 1990. |
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