Health insurance and the supply of entrepreneurs

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: HoltzEakin, D; Penrod, JR; Rosen, HS
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Princeton University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(96)01579-4
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 209-235
• 关键词: Health insurance; entrepreneurs; portability

摘要

Some commentators have suggested that non-portable health insurance impedes people from leaving their jobs to start new firms, so that universal health insurance would significantly enhance entrepreneurial activity. We investigate this belief by comparing wage-earners who become self-employed during a given period of time with their counterparts who do not. By examining the impact of variables relating to the health insurance and health status of these workers and their families we attempt to infer whether the lack of health insurance portability affects the probability that they become self-employed. The statistical evidence is consistent with a wide range of responses.