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Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes: Joint Decision-Making by Two-Earner Couples

Anne Beeson Royalty, Indiana University-Purdue University
Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota

To study the joint decision-making of two-earner couples with respect to employer-based health insurance and the dimensions of a job that are correlated with employer insurance. The researchers pose the following research questions:

(1) Do working couples make joint decisions wherein health insurance availability through one spouse is related to part-time employment by the other spouse?

(2) Do two-earner couples make joint decisions with respect to spousal health insurance and the choice of working in a small establishment?

(3) Is there a relationship between insurance available to one's spouse and the decisions to be self-employed?

(4) Do such joint decisions appear to be symmetric with respect to husbands and wives, or are wives more likely to take as a given a husband's job and its associated characteristics, as previous studies have assumed?

 
 

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