The Long-Run Effects of Job Displacement on Sources of Health Insurance Coverage

Nicholas Jolly and Brian J. Phelan
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Brian J. Phelan: DePaul University

Journal of Labor Research, 2017, vol. 38, issue 2, No 3, 187-205

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines job displacement’s long-run effect on health insurance coverage and source of coverage. We find that displacement lowers the probability that an individual receives health insurance even ten years after job loss. However, those without children at the time of job loss largely drive this result. While displaced workers with and without children face similar losses in access to employer-provided health insurance, those with children mostly offset these losses by acquiring health insurance from other sources, particularly through the increased use of Medicaid.

Keywords: Job displacement; Health insurance coverage; Source of coverage; Medicaid; J32; J63; J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s12122-017-9246-7

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