TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Farooq, Ammar
AU  - Kugler, Adriana
        TI  - Beyond Job Lock: Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility
        PY  - 2016/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9832
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9832
        AB  - We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that moving from a state in the 10th to the 90th percentile in terms of Medicaid income thresholds increases occupational and industrial mobility by 7.6% and 7.8%. We also find that higher income Medicaid thresholds increase mobility towards occupations and industries with greater wage spreads and higher separation probabilities, but with higher wages and higher educational requirements.
        KW  - Medicaid
KW  - job lock
KW  - public health insurance occupational mobility
KW  - industrial mobility
KW  - occupational mismatch
        ER  -