TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mincer,Jacob
AU  - Jovanovic,Boyan
TI  - Labor Mobility and Wages
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 357
PY  - 1982
Y2  - August 1982
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0357
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0357.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jacob Mincer
E-Mail: N/A user is deceased

Boyan Jovanovic
New York University
Department of Economics
19 W. 4th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY  10012
Tel: 212/998-8953
Fax: 212/995-4186
E-Mail: Boyan.Jovanovic@nyu.edu
M1  - published as Jacob Mincer, Boyan Jovanovic. "Labor Mobility and Wages," in Sherwin Rosen, ed., "Studies in Labor Markets" University of Chicago Press (1981)

AB  - Workers' compensation insurance provides cash payments and medical benefits to workers who incur a work-related injury or illness .Many features of the workers' compensation program parallel features of proposed mandated employer-paid health insurance plans. This paper empirically examines the incidence of the workers' compensation program to infer the likely consequences of mandated health insurance proposals. In certain industries, such as trucking and carpentry, workers' compensation insurance costs are quite large, and vary tremendously within states overtime, and across states at a moment in time. This variation issued to identify the incidence of the program. Empirical analysis of two data sets suggest that changes in employers' costs of workers' compensation insurance are largely shifted to employees in the form of lower wages. In addition, higher insurance costs are found to have a negative but statistically insignificant effect on employment. The implied elasticity of labor demand from our results is about -.50.
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