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7713612

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-5-18
pubmed:abstractText
It is conventional wisdom that the increase in the number of uninsured people during the 1980s was due, in part, to systematic trends in employment, specifically: 1) shifts from full-time to part-time jobs and to self-employment; and 2) changes in the industrial mix of employment, especially toward the service industries. This paper uses the March Current Population Survey data from 1980 through 1987 to measure the contribution of these factors to the rise in the uninsured. In the first case, we find the premise of rising part-time work and self-employment to be untrue. In the second case, less than 15% of the decline in health insurance over this period was due to employment shifting from higher-coverage to lower-coverage industries. Instead, the decline resulted from falling coverage rates across all industries. This is not to dismiss the possible importance of such employment trends over decades, but to emphasize the need to investigate other causes of the change during recent years.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0046-9580
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
111-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Do shifts toward service industries, part-time work, and self-employment explain the rising uninsured rate?
pubmed:affiliation
Health Sciences Program, RAND, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article