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Title: Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Gender Wage Gap
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Cowan, Benjamin W. Schwab, Benjamin |
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Gender Wage Gap Journal of Health Economics 45 (January 2016): 103-114. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629615001095 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Health Care; Insurance, Health; Wage Gap During prime working years, women have higher expected healthcare expenses than men. However, employees' insurance rates are not gender-rated in the employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) market. Thus, women may experience lower wages in equilibrium from employers who offer health insurance to their employees. We show that female employees suffer a larger wage gap relative to men when they hold ESI: our results suggest this accounts for roughly 10% of the overall gender wage gap. For a full-time worker, this pay gap due to ESI is on the order of the expected difference in healthcare expenses between women and men. |
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Cowan, Benjamin W. and Benjamin Schwab. "Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Gender Wage Gap." Journal of Health Economics 45 (January 2016): 103-114.
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