Ongoing Projects - Job Choice
Job Choice research considers how health insurance benefits contribute to people’s workplace decision making processes.
The Effect of Geographic Access to Jobs on Job Sorting and Access to Health Insurance
This project seeks to understand the extent to which lower skilled workers face barriers to sorting into jobs offering health insurance.
Eliciting Information on Household's Perceived Value of Health Insurance
This study is surveying people about their attitudes toward health insurance and whether they value it when making job choices. Shapiro and Kimball hope to gain a better understanding of the choices people make to have or not to have health coverage.
Estimable Equilibrium Models of Wage and Health Insurance Provision Determination
Researchers have long debated the degree to which health insurance "locks" employees into a job, thereby reducing job mobility which may be helpful both to the individual and to society. This study seeks to find the degree to which job lock exists and to what degree it reduces overall efficiency.
Job Sorting for Employer Sponsored Insurance Offers: Do All Workers Have the Same Options?
This project addresses the question of to what degree workers of different types have accessible opportunities for obtaining their preferred forms of compensation (i.e., wages vs. insurance).
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