The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employer-Sponsored Insurance for Low-Income Workers and Dependents

Michael Dworsky, Christine Eibner, Xiaoyu Nie, Jeffrey B. Wenger

ResearchPosted on rand.org Jul 28, 2021Published in: American Journal of Health Economics (2021). doi: 10.1086/716198

This study found robust evidence that minimum wage increases lead to reductions in employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) coverage in families below 300% of the federal poverty level, with a nominal $1 increase in the minimum wage reducing the probability of ESI coverage by 1 percentage point. Reductions in coverage were also observed both for workers and for their dependents.

Read More

Topics

Document Details

  • Copyright: The University of Chicago Press Journals
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2021
  • Pages: 98
  • Document Number: EP-68692

Research conducted by

This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations.

RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.