| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w4402 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 4402 |
| Does Public Health Insurance Reduce Labor Market Flexibility or Encourage the Underground Economy? Evidence from Spain and the United States | |
| Sara De La Rica; Thomas Lemieux | |
| 发表日期 | 1993-07-01 |
| 出版年 | 1993 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper compares the labor market implications of the health insurance system in Spain and in the United States. While most health insurance is privately provided to workers (by employers) in the United States, Spanish workers obtain health insurance coverage from the public social security system. The Spanish system is financed by a payroll (social security) tax shared between employers and employees. There is clear evidence, however, of widespread non-compliance with the social security tax. This paper empirically compares the incidence of health insurance coverage among U.S. workers to the pattern of compliance with the social security tax among Spanish workers. The main finding of this paper is that these two patterns are very similar. They both depend on the same supply and demand factors, which is consistent with basic economic models of private provision of benefits and of tax compliance. However, one important difference between the two systems is that in Spain, unlike the United States, essentially all heads of household work in the covered sector and thus have a full access to public health care for themselves and for their dependents. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w4402 |
| 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/561773 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sara De La Rica,Thomas Lemieux. Does Public Health Insurance Reduce Labor Market Flexibility or Encourage the Underground Economy? Evidence from Spain and the United States. 1993. |
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