Tag: Massachusetts
Half of older households fall below 200 percent of poverty. Recently, I was appointed to the Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Massachusetts. The Council has a broad mandate, but I’m an economist so I care about whether older people in Massachusetts have enough money. Apparently they do not: Massachusetts ranks among the worst in…
Abstract This paper examines the impact of the Massachusetts Health Insurance reform of 2006 on job mobility and employment exit using administrative data from the Social Security Administration. The Massachusetts reform mandated that every resident have insurance coverage and facilitated this initiative by requiring employers to offer coverage, as well as expanding Medicaid and creating…
