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Essays on Health Insurance and Labor in Economics
Essays on Health Insurance and Labor in Economics
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151051
- ISBN
- 9798383163245
- DDC
- 378
- 저자명
- Bassler, Sean.
- 서명/저자
- Essays on Health Insurance and Labor in Economics
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Minnesota, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 94 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Storesletten, Kjetil.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the relationships between domestic outsourcing and employer health plans. Between 1975 and 2012, the share of low-skill workers in the US that are domestically outsourced increased by approximately 10 percentage points to 14 percent. This development coincided with three trends: rising medical care prices, rising income, and shifting labor demand towards high-skill workers. Using a general equilibrium model, I explore the relationship between these trends. As firms increased the generosity of their employer-provided health plans for high-skill employees, anti-discrimination statutes from the US tax code required that they offer the same health plans to all their employees. This fact raised the relative cost of low-skill employees, increasing low-skill domestic outsourcing. With the calibrated model, I find that the rising price of medical care interacting with the anti-discrimination statutes accounts for 10 percent of the rise in low-skill domestic outsourcing between 1975 and 2012, while rising income and the shift towards high-skill workers had minimal effects. These results suggest that the rising price of medical care is an economically meaningful driver of the increase in low-skill domestic outsourcing in the US. Chapter 1 develops a new novel theory featuring both domestic outsourcing and health plans. Chapter 2 applies these theory to the data.In Chapter 3 I explore the effects of Medicaid on employment status. We measure the effect of Medicaid Expansion on the work arrangements of low-income adults. Before the expansion, many of these individuals only had access to subsidized health insurance through a traditional full-time job. After the expansion, they also had access to Medicaid, potentially allowing them to change their labor supply decisions. Using American Community Survey data, we built a sample of low-income adults who only had access to subsidized health plans through a typical full-time job or the Medicaid Expansion. Adults in the sample are childless, spouseless, non-disabled, and reside in states without confounding state-level policies. To identify the effect of newly-found Medicaid access on this sample, we use a difference-in-difference design from Callaway and Sant'Anna [2021] . We find that the expansion had a statistically insignificant effect on the share of our sample in several labor market arrangements: traditional full-time employment, part-time employment, self-employment, unemployment, and not participating in the labor force. These results are robust to including pre-treatment covariates and adjustments to our underlying sample framework. We further decompose treatment effects into short- and long-term effects and find both are statistically insignificant. We conclude that Medicaid Expansion had a negligible impact on both the work arrangements for low-income workers.
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 키워드
- Health insurance
- 키워드
- Health plans
- 키워드
- Medical care
- 기타저자
- University of Minnesota Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■500 ▼aSource: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
■500 ▼aAdvisor: Storesletten, Kjetil.
■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2024.
■520 ▼aThis dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the relationships between domestic outsourcing and employer health plans. Between 1975 and 2012, the share of low-skill workers in the US that are domestically outsourced increased by approximately 10 percentage points to 14 percent. This development coincided with three trends: rising medical care prices, rising income, and shifting labor demand towards high-skill workers. Using a general equilibrium model, I explore the relationship between these trends. As firms increased the generosity of their employer-provided health plans for high-skill employees, anti-discrimination statutes from the US tax code required that they offer the same health plans to all their employees. This fact raised the relative cost of low-skill employees, increasing low-skill domestic outsourcing. With the calibrated model, I find that the rising price of medical care interacting with the anti-discrimination statutes accounts for 10 percent of the rise in low-skill domestic outsourcing between 1975 and 2012, while rising income and the shift towards high-skill workers had minimal effects. These results suggest that the rising price of medical care is an economically meaningful driver of the increase in low-skill domestic outsourcing in the US. Chapter 1 develops a new novel theory featuring both domestic outsourcing and health plans. Chapter 2 applies these theory to the data.In Chapter 3 I explore the effects of Medicaid on employment status. We measure the effect of Medicaid Expansion on the work arrangements of low-income adults. Before the expansion, many of these individuals only had access to subsidized health insurance through a traditional full-time job. After the expansion, they also had access to Medicaid, potentially allowing them to change their labor supply decisions. Using American Community Survey data, we built a sample of low-income adults who only had access to subsidized health plans through a typical full-time job or the Medicaid Expansion. Adults in the sample are childless, spouseless, non-disabled, and reside in states without confounding state-level policies. To identify the effect of newly-found Medicaid access on this sample, we use a difference-in-difference design from Callaway and Sant'Anna [2021] . We find that the expansion had a statistically insignificant effect on the share of our sample in several labor market arrangements: traditional full-time employment, part-time employment, self-employment, unemployment, and not participating in the labor force. These results are robust to including pre-treatment covariates and adjustments to our underlying sample framework. We further decompose treatment effects into short- and long-term effects and find both are statistically insignificant. We conclude that Medicaid Expansion had a negligible impact on both the work arrangements for low-income workers.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0130.
■650 4▼aAmerican studies
■653 ▼aHealth insurance
■653 ▼aHealth plans
■653 ▼aDomestic outsourcing
■653 ▼aMedical care
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■690 ▼a0510
■690 ▼a0323
■71020▼aUniversity of Minnesota▼bEconomics.
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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