Hysteresis from employer subsidies

Employer Subsidies for Health Insurance Premiums: Massachusetts’ Unique Experiment

Efforts to enroll low-income workers in premium assistance programs are constrained by the health insurance offer rates of the firms who employ them. One solution is to target premium subsidies to small firms as well as to their low-income workers, and Massachusetts is the sole state to have tried this. Firms participating in the state’s Insurance Partnership were more likely to be self-employe...

The effect of tax subsidies to employer - provided supplementary health insurance : evidence from Canada

This paper presents new evidence of the effect of the tax subsidy to employer-provided health insurance on coverage by such insurance. I study the effects of a 1993 tax change that reduced the tax subsidy to employer-provided supplementary health insurance in Quebec by almost 60%. Using a differences-in-differences methodology in which changes in Quebec are compared to changes in other province...

Employee-Based versus Employer-Based Subsidies to Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective

We revisit the relative merits of employee-based versus employer-based labor market subsidies. While conventional analyses stress the equivalence of these approaches, we find a modest preference for employee-based approaches. Because the population of low-wage workers overlaps, but is not identical to, the populations of low-skill or low-income workers, simple employer-based approaches are like...

Recycling fuel subsidies as health subsidies.

From Quality to Innovation: Evidence from Two French Employer Surveys

In this article we investigate the relationship between quality system and innovation performance using the method of selective matching. We use two French microeconomic surveys, “Changement Organisationnel et Informatisation” (COI 1997) and “Enquête Communautaire sur l’Innovation” (CIS3 1998-2000). We highlight in a first hypothesis a positive relationship between quality (ISO 9000) and innova...