| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w5948 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 5948 |
| Retiree Health Insurance and the Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s | |
| David M. Blau; Donna B. Gilleskie | |
| 发表日期 | 1997-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 1997 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We estimate the impact of employer-provided retiree health insurance on the rate at which men aged 51-62 enter and exit the labor force and switch jobs. The models estimated are an approximation of the employment decision rules implied by a dynamic stochastic model of employment behavior of older individuals. We use data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), which contains more detailed and accurate measures of retiree health insurance than those used in most previous studies. The results show that availability of employer-provided retiree health insurance (EPRHI) increases the rate of exit from employment by two percentage points per year on average if the individual shares the cost of the insurance coverage with the firm, and by six percentage points if the firm pays the entire cost. The impact of EPRHI on the annual rate of labor force exit increases with age, reaching nine percentage points by age 61. These are larger than the effects estimated in previous studies. The accurate and detailed health insurance measures available in the HRS help account for the larger effects found here. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, a possibility not accounted for in previous studies, also has a substantial impact on the estimates. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w5948 |
| 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/563446 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David M. Blau,Donna B. Gilleskie. Retiree Health Insurance and the Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s. 1997. |
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