Health insurance availability at the workplace: how important are worker preferences?
Analysts have frequently interpreted the uneven distribution of health insurance across firms of varying size as evidence of insurance market failure in the small group market. We explore an additional explanation by considering the relationship between employee preferences for health insurance and...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 770 - 786 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Fall99
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