| Abstrakt: |
Although employment-based health insurance has become recognized as a factor relevant to remaining in the labor force, the dynamics surrounding gender differences are not well-examined. The overarching research question of this paper entails whether individual employment-based health insurance for unmarried people (measured in 2004) produces part-time labor force participation (measured in 2006) in women and men ages 45 to 64. Labor force participation encompasses: out of the labor force or retired (as a reference group), part-time work, and working full-time. Unmarried women and men are analyzed in terms of which major personal and social characteristics determine full-time work, part-time work, or disability. Results revealed that both job tenure and having employment-based health insurance are significant predictors of part-time work statuses, including bridge jobs. Other factors, here gender, health, race and ethnicity, and income have not been found significant in determining the three labor force outcomes with data of the Health and Retirement Study. Since labor force participation consists in more than two discrete nominal outcomes, multinomial regression is the appropriate estimation technique that will allow for these more than two discrete nominal outcomes. Finally, weighted estimates will be presented in the form of odds ratios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
