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- Title
Older Married Workers and Nonstandard Jobs: The Effects of Health and Health Insurance.
- Authors
WENGER, JEFFREY B.; REYNOLDS, JEREMY
- Abstract
We examine the effects of health and health insurance coverage on older married workers’ decisions to work in temporary, contract, part-time, self-employment, and regular full-time jobs. We model the behavior of older married workers as interdependent, showing that one spouse’s health and insurance status affects the employment of the other. In general, we find that men and women are less likely to be employed in regular full-time jobs when they are in fair or poor health and are more likely to be in regular full-time employment when their spouses are in poor health.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT of married people; OCCUPATIONS; EMPLOYMENT of older people; HEALTH of older people; HEALTH insurance; SPOUSES; HEALTH
- Publication
Industrial Relations, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 3, p411
- ISSN
0019-8676
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00566.x