Health insurance loss: the case of the displaced worker, (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, April 1987

Health insurance loss:
the case of the displaced worker

Michael Podgursky
Assistant professor of economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Paul Swaim
Assistant professor of economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Upon termination, most displaced workers lose employer-financed health insurance along with their jobs; data for 1983-84 suggest that such workers ran a high risk of remaining uninsured for extended periods, even after new employment was secured.

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Recession swells count of displaced workers.—June 1993.

Worker displacement still common in the late 1980s.—May 1991.

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