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Ongoing Research - Labor Markets

Research in this area looks specifically at how Labor Markets and labor supply effect health insurance coverage.

Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

Jayanta Bhattacharya: Stanford Medical School
William B. Vogt: Carnegie Mellon University

Job Sorting for Employer Sponsored Insurance Offers: Do All Workers Have the Same Options?

Linda J. Blumberg: The Urban Institute
Maria Cancian: University of Wisconsin

The Effect of Geographic Access to Jobs on Job Sorting and Access to Health Insurance

Richard Hirth, Reagan Baughman, and Michael Chernew: University of Michigan

This project seeks to understand the extent to which lower skilled workers face barriers to sorting into jobs offering health insurance.

Racial and Ethnic Composition of Firms and Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage

Darrick Hamilton: New School University
William Darrity: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Arthur Goldsmith: Washington and Lee University

This project is exploring the relationship between a worker's race and ethnicity and employer offers of health insurance.
 
 

ERIU is based at the University of Michigan with funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Our University of Michigan partners are the School of Public Health, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Economics Department, and the Institute for Social Research.

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