Study Findings on Labor Relations Are Outlined in Reports from Georgetown University (Impacts of Public Health Insurance On Occupational Upgrading): Labor Relations

2022 JAN 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Labor Relations have been published. According to news originating from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Using data from the Current Population Survey’s Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups, the authors examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages people to switch toward better quality occupations. Exploiting variation in Medicaid eligibility expansions for children across states during the 1990s and early 2000s, they find that a one standard deviation increase in Medicaid infant income thresholds increased the likelihood that working parents move to a new occupation by 1.6 percentage points or 3.3%.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Georgetown University, “Findings show that these effects are larger for those below 150% of the poverty line and for married parents who were not benefiting from Medicaid prior to the expansions. In addition, findings indicate that Medicaid generosity also increased mobility toward occupations with higher average wages and higher educational requirements.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This article contributes to the literature on job lock by showing that access to public health insurance not only increases employment and job switches but also encourages occupational upgrading.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Impacts of Public Health Insurance On Occupational Upgrading. ILR Review, 2022;75(1):225-250. ILR Review can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Adriana Kugler, Georgetown University, McCourt Sch Publ Policy, Washington, DC 20057, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793920928066. 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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