The impact of health on job mobility: a measure of job lock.

The author analyzes data from the National Medical Expenditure Survey of 1987 to measure the importance of “job lock”—the reduction in job mobility due to the non-portability of employer-provided health insurance. Refining the approach commonly used by other researchers investigating the same quest...

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Published in:	Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 51; pp. 282 - 299
Main Author:	Kapur, Kanika
Format:	Article
Published:	Cornell University January 1998
Subjects:	Health insurance Mathematical models in business Labor turnover Labor mobility United States
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