Active and retired public employees' health insurance: potential data sources [0.03%]
在职和退休公职人员的健康保险：潜在的数据来源
Melinda Sandler Morrill
Melinda Sandler Morrill
Employer-provided health insurance for public sector workers is a significant public policy issue. Underfunding and the growing costs of benefits may hinder the fiscal solvency of state and local governments. Findings from the private secto...
The fiscal stress arising from state and local retiree health obligations [0.03%]
州和地方退休人员健康义务带来的财政压力
Byron Lutz,Louise Sheiner
Byron Lutz
A major factor weighing down the long-term finances of state and local governments is the obligation to fund retiree benefits. While state and local government pension obligations have been analyzed in great detail, much less attention has ...
The effects of retiree health insurance plan characteristics on retirees' choice and employers' costs [0.03%]
关于退休人员健康保险计划特征对退休人员选择和雇主成本的影响研究
Robert L Clark,Melinda Sandler Morrill,David Vanderweide
Robert L Clark
To moderate the rate of growth of retiree health insurance costs, employers can modify plans and move retirees into less expensive plans. We examine policy modifications implemented by the North Carolina State Health Plan. We investigate wh...
How does retiree health insurance influence public sector employee saving? [0.03%]
退休员工健康保险如何影响公共部门职工的储蓄行为？
Robert L Clark,Olivia S Mitchell
Robert L Clark
Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on household wealth accumulation, not dissimilar to the effects reported elsewhere for employer pensions, Social Security, and M...
The role of retiree health insurance in the early retirement of public sector employees [0.03%]
退休公共部门员工的提早退休中退休健康保险的作用
John B Shoven,Sita Nataraj Slavov
John B Shoven
Most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which provides them with group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study the impact of retiree health coverage on the labor supply of public s...
Retiree health insurance for public school employees: does it affect retirement? [0.03%]
公立学校雇员的退休健康保险会对其退休产生影响吗？
Maria D Fitzpatrick
Maria D Fitzpatrick
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock"...
Compensating wage differentials and the impact of health insurance in the public sector on wages and hours [0.03%]
补偿性工资差异及公共卫生保险对公部门薪资和工时的影响
Paige Qin,Michael Chernew
Paige Qin
This paper examines the trade-off between wages and employer spending on health insurance for public sector workers, and the relationship between coverage and hours worked. Our primary approach compares trends in wages and hours for public ...
Jeffrey Clemens,David M Cutler
Jeffrey Clemens
We analyze the incidence of public-employee health benefits. Because these benefits are negotiated through the political process, relevant labor market institutions deviate significantly from the competitive, private-sector benchmark. Empir...
Robert L Clark,Joseph P Newhouse,David M Cutler
Robert L Clark
Can health-insurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan [0.03%]
医疗保险能预防童工问题吗——基于巴基斯坦的一项影响评估研究
Andreas Landmann,Markus Frölich
Andreas Landmann
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show that reducing vulnerability can affect child labor outcomes. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfina...