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Offers or Take-up: Explaining Minorities’ Lower Health Insurance Coverage

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  • Irena Dushi

    (Department of Economics, Hunter College, City University of New York)

  • Marjorie Honig

    (Department of Economics, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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There is considerable evidence that minorities are less likely than whites to be covered under employment-based health insurance. In 2001, rates of Hispanic full-time workers were 21 and 15 percentage points lower than those of non-Hispanic white men and women. For policy purposes, understanding whether these disparities are generated by differences in the likelihood of being in a job offering coverage or in decisions regarding take-up of offered coverage is critical. We find significant effects of race and ethnicity on offers but not on take-up, controlling for job and demographic characteristics including nativity. Magnitudes of these effects differ by gender and household composition.

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  • Irena Dushi & Marjorie Honig, 2005. "Offers or Take-up: Explaining Minorities’ Lower Health Insurance Coverage," Economics Working Paper Archive at Hunter College 412, Hunter College Department of Economics.
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    1. Helen Levy, 2006. "Health Insurance and the Wage Gap," NBER Working Papers 11975, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Joseph A. Ritter, 2013. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Nonwage Compensation," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 829-852, October.
    3. Pylypchuk, Yuriy & Selden, Thomas M., 2008. "A discrete choice decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic differences in children's health insurance coverage," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(4), pages 1109-1128, July.
    4. Lynn Paringer, 2007. "Hispanic Workers and Employer Sponsored Health Insurance," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 51(1), pages 40-53, March.

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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions

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