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McFadden, Daniel L.; Noton, Carlos E.; Olivella, Pau - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This expository paper describes the factors that contribute to failure of health insurance markets, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to combat these failures. Standardized contracts and creditable coverage mandates are discussed, along with premium support, enrollment...

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Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B.; Rehavi, M. Marit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a "community affiliate" that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet...

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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security … processing times reduce the employment and earnings of SSDI applicants for multiple years following application, with the effects … employment. Accounting separately for these channels, we find that the receipt effect is at least 50% larger than previously …

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The Economics of Work Schedules under the New Hours and Employment Taxes

Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Hours, employment, and income taxes are economically distinct, and all three are either introduced or expanded by the … direction. A conservative estimate of the law's average employment rate impact is negative three percent. The ACA's tax wedges … explicit full-time employment taxes. …

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The Effect of Medicaid Expansions in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s on the Labor Supply of Pregnant Women

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

employment by approximately 13% to 16%. …

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The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply

DeLeire, Thomas; Dague, Laura; Leininger, Lindsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non … statistically meaningful reductions in employment up to at least 9 quarters later, with an estimated size of from 2 to 10 percentage …

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Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion

Lahey, Joanna N.; Boyle, Melissa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Measuring the overall impact of public health insurance receipt is important in an era of increased access to publicly-provided and subsidized insurance. Although government expansion of health insurance to older workers leads to labor supply reductions for recipients, there may be spillover...

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The New Full-time Employment Taxes

Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The Affordable Care Act introduces or expands taxes on incomes and full-time employment, beginning in 2014. The purpose … of this paper is to characterize the new full-time employment taxes from the perspective of a household budget constraint …, full-time employment taxes will be prevalent and often as large as what workers can earn in five hours of work per week, 52 …

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The Impact of Market Size and Composition on Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the First Year of the ACA

Dickstein, Michael J.; Duggan, Mark; Orsini, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Under the Affordable Care Act, individual states have discretion in how they define coverage regions, within which insurers must charge the same premium to buyers of the same age, family structure, and smoking status. We exploit variation in these definitions to investigate whether the size of...

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Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Dalton, Christina M.; Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Town, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Standard Medicare Part D drug insurance provides limited coverage in a ``donut hole'' region, making the purchase problem dynamic. We develop a discontinuity-based test for myopia using enrollees who arrived near the coverage gap early in the year. We find that there are fewer and cheaper...

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