title: Recent trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage: are bad jobs getting worse?
abstract: We examine whether the decline in the availability of employer-provided health insurance is a phenomenon common to all jobs or is concentrated only on certain jobs. We find that declines in own-employer insurance coverage over the 1988-1997 period are driven primarily by declines in take-up for long-term full-time workers and declines in eligibility for new and part-time workers. We also look at trends by workers' education level, and see how much of the decline in is offset by an increase in coverage through a spouse's policy.
authors.affiliation: Princeton University, USA.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Farber
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Levy
mesh_terms: D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*