Job-Lock and Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Care Reform

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Abstract: In this paper, I use the 2006 Massachusetts state health care reform to analyze the effect of a change in the price of individual market insurance on job-lock. I find that lower individual market insurance premiums do not reduce job-lock at levels significantly different from zero. Previous studies of job-lock have not explicitly quantified the relationship between premium prices and job-lock for the aggregate working population. My findings suggest that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which is largely modeled after the Massachusetts reform, may have a smaller effect on job-lock than originally anticipated.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2013

Author	Sachs, Rebecca Marqusee
Primary advisor	Pencavel, John
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	Labor mobility
Subject	turnover
Subject	health insurance
Subject	government policy
Genre	Thesis

Related item	Title 2013 Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/kh086yg2550

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Preferred Citation: Sachs, Rebecca Marqusee. (2013). Job-Lock and Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Care Reform. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/kh086yg2550

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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