Job displacement’s long-run effect on access to employer-provided health insurance and other fringe benefits

Jolly, Nicholas A.; Phelan, Brian J.

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.010

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“…In order to translate into dollars the effect of ΔIP j on benefits, I follow the method developed in Jolly and Phelan (2015). I use information on the economy‐wide average dollar value of benefits for employees participating in a given benefit from Bureau of Labor Statistics (2006a).…”

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“…Then I compute the average yearly cost per eligible and participating full‐time employee using data on the share of employees who are eligible for, respectively, participating in, a given benefit (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2006b). As in Jolly and Phelan (2015), I assume a full‐time employee works 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year. I compute costs for full‐time employees because my sample is mainly made of full‐time employees most of whom work 40 hours a week.…”

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“…(Bureau of Labor Statistics 2006b). As in Jolly and Phelan (2015), I assume a full-time employee works 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year. I compute costs for full-time employees because my sample is mainly made of full-time employees most of whom work 40 hours a week.…”

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“…Indeed, λ can be large for somebody who changes jobs because of Chinese imports. For example, Jolly and Phelan (2015) find that, when accounting also for fringe benefits rather than only wages, the effect of job displacement on total compensation increases considerably. On the other hand, Fronstin (2012, figures 1 and 2) finds that at least for health insurance, between 1997 and 2005, both the economy‐wide offer and coverage rate do not change much: so, for job changes less severe than a job displacement, benefits need not be severely affected.…”

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“…The benefits I study represent 53% of total fringe benefits and 71% of nonlegally required benefits (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2006a, table 6). I use data from 2006 to follow Jolly and Phelan (2015) and because, up to the 2000s, the data on the share of employees eligible for a given benefit published by Bureau of Labor Statistics was broken down by firm size (small, medium, and large), and not available for all workers.…”

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Fringe Benefits and Chinese Import Competition

Tempesti

2020

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While many studies have quantified the impact of Chinese import competition on U.S. wages, to my knowledge this is the first study to also estimate the effect on fringe benefits. This is important because in the United States, fringe benefits are now more than 30% of compensation. I first argue that if trade affects the share of benefits in compensation, focusing on wages and ignoring fringe benefits may give us misleading estimates of the effect of trade on workers' total compensation. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, I track the subsequent outcomes of workers who were working in manufacturing in 1996. Similar to Autor et al. (2014), I find that exposure to Chinese competition negatively affects wage income. As to fringe benefits, the effect on participation in a defined benefit retirement plan and the availability of vacation days is negative and significant. The effects on other benefits are usually negative but imprecisely estimated. The effect on the overall dollar value of benefits is negative and significant. However, in percentage terms, the effect on benefits is smaller than the effect on wages. This suggests that, in percentage terms, the impact of Chinese import competition on overall compensation is less severe than the one found in Autor et al. (2014) for wages.

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The effects of job displacement on spousal health

Jolly

2020

Rev Econ Household

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This paper studies how job displacement influences the health of the worker's spouse. Results show that the husband's displacement leads to an increase in the probability of the wife reporting her physical health as fair/poor. These wives are also more likely to experience high blood pressure, heart disease, and/or emotional issues. Wives who are in poor health at baseline, are in low financial standing prior to the husbands' job loss, are not working two years before the husbands' job loss, and have children at home at the time of the husbands' displacement tend to drive these results. Husbands of displaced wives experience little change in self-reported health, the probability of high blood pressure, heart disease, or emotional issues.

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The Long-Run Effects of Job Displacement on Sources of Health Insurance Coverage

Jolly

Phelan

2017

J Labor Res

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Job displacement’s long-run effect on access to employer-provided health insurance and other fringe benefits

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Fringe Benefits and Chinese Import Competition

Fringe Benefits and Chinese Import Competition

The effects of job displacement on spousal health

The Long-Run Effects of Job Displacement on Sources of Health Insurance Coverage

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