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Revisiting Compensating Wage Differentials: The Evidence From Employer-Provided Health Insurance, Dan Qu
Revisiting Compensating Wage Differentials: The Evidence From Employer-Provided Health Insurance, Dan Qu
Business Review
This paper uses 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine the evidence for compensating wage differentials associated with employer-provided health insurance (EHI) in the United States. The results provide no evidence of a tradeoff between wages and EHI coverage. On the other hand, the results do suggest that employees who work in states with income taxes are more likely to receive EHI than those in states without income taxes. Fixed effects, first differencing and instrumental variable estimation are used to address the potential ability bias and endogeneity problems in wage models with EHI as an independent …