Health Insurance and Worker Retention in the Construction Industry.
Using samples of blue collar construction workers from the 1996 and 2001 SIPP, a shared frailty survival model shows that controlling for wages, occupational and demographic factors, both portable union and nonportable nonunion employer-provided health insurance increase the probability of worker re...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 20 - 39 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Winter 2010
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