Tag: Massachusetts
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…
Reform may prompt some workers to retire earlier. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a brief we issued on the effects of Massachusetts’ health insurance reform. In addition to a literature review, the brief contained a new analysis of labor force participation for 55-64 year old males. No study had examined the labor market…
