 Effects of the affordable care act on insurance coverage and labor supply for noncitizen immigrantsHao Guo, Miaomiao Zou and Yue Liu Economic Modelling, 2023, vol. 119, issue C Abstract: Noncitizen immigrants constitute a sizable and growing share of the U.S. labor force. However, their response to changes in public benefits remains underexplored. Thus, the present study used undocumented immigrants (who are ineligible for public benefits) as a comparison group to determine whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changed the insurance coverage and labor supply of documented noncitizens. Based on the findings, the ACA was associated with a significant decrease in the uninsured rate and a substantial increase in Medicaid coverage among documented noncitizens. This change in insurance coverage was also related to the limited change in labor force participation, although the effect differed in states that expanded Medicaid coverage from those that did not. Moreover, the number of working hours and full-time employed documented immigrants declined, compared to that of undocumented immigrants. Keywords: Affordable care act; Medicaid expansion; Labor market outcomes; Health insurance coverage; Noncitizen immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:119:y:2023:i:c:s0264999322003546 DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106117 Access Statistics for this article Economic Modelling is currently edited by S. Hall and P. Pauly More articles in Economic Modelling from Elsevier |
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