TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gruber,Jonathan
AU  - Hanratty,Maria
TI  - The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance: Evidence from Canada
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4589
PY  - 1993
Y2  - December 1993
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4589
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4589.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jonathan Gruber
MIT Department of Economics
E52-355
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-8892
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: gruberj@mit.edu

Maria J. Hanratty
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
301 19th Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN  55409
Tel: 612/625-6500
Fax: 612/625-3513
E-Mail: mhanratty@hhh.umn.edu
AB  - While National Health Insurance (NHI) plans in the U.S. are often opposed on the basis of their potential disemployment effects, there is no existing evidence on the effects of NHI on employment.  We provide such evidence by examining the employment consequences of NHI in Canada, using the fact that NHI was introduced on a staggered basis across the Canadian provinces.  We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 period.  We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours were unchanged.
ER  -