This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known
about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall …

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes several provisions designed to expand health
insurance coverage that also alter the tie between employment and health insurance. In this …

The fraction of the US workforce identified as involuntary part-time workers rose to new
highs during the US Great Recession and came down only slowly in its aftermath. We …

This study tests whether the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
increased involuntary part-time (IPT) employment. Using data from the Current Population …

Are super-capable robots and algorithms destined to devour our jobs and idle much of the
adult population? Predictions of a jobless future have recurred in waves since the advent of …

Employer-sponsored health insurance is a significant component of labor costs. We
examine the causal effect of health insurance premiums on firms' employment, both in terms …

With the prevailing uncertainties in the labour market, existing literature has not adequately
covered the link between employment contracts of part-time and full-time employees with …

The underemployment rate, the percent of employed people who are working part-time but
prefer to be working full-time, moves closely with the unemployment rate, rising during …

We examine the effect of increased healthcare costs on local economic conditions. We use
private equity (PE) buyouts of US hospital systems as a shock to the healthcare costs faced …

This brief examines effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on labor market outcomes using
data from the Current Population Survey from 2000 to 2016. Results indicate that through …