Findings from University of Nebraska in the Area of Health Insurance Reported (Employment-based health insurance and aggregate labor supply)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health Insurance. According to news reporting out of Omaha, Nebraska, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "We study the impact of the U.S. employment-based health insurance system on the employment rate, the shares of full-time/part-time workers, and aggregate hours worked in a general equilibrium life cycle model with incomplete markets and idiosyncratic risks in both income and medical expenses. In contrast to most Europeans, who get universal health insurance from the government, most working-age Americans get health insurance through their employers."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Nebraska, "We find that the employment-based health insurance system provides Americans with an extra incentive to work and work full-time. In a calibrated version of the model, we assess the extent to which the different health insurance systems account for the differences in employment rate and full-time/part-time shares of workers between the U.S. and European countries. Our quantitative results suggest that the different health insurance systems can account for a significant fraction of the differences in employment rate and full-time/part-time shares of workers between the two regions."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "In addition, we find that the employment-based health insurance system is one of the reasons why many Americans work more than Europeans."

For more information on this research see: Employment-based health insurance and aggregate labor supply. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018;154():156-174. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-economic-behavior-and-organization/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Z.G. Feng, University of Nebraska, Dept. of Econ, Omaha, NE 68106, United States (see also Health Insurance).

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.08.009. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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