Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premium Cost Growth and Its Association With Earnings Inequality Among US Families.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Costs of employer-sponsored health care benefits have increased faster than workers' wages for several decades, with important implications for disparities in earnings and wage stagnation.

Objective

To quantify how growth in employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) premiums may have been associated with reduced annual wages, disparities in earnings by race and ethnicity and wage level, and wage stagnation among US families with ESI.

Design, setting, and participants

In this economic evaluation, serial cross-sectional analyses were performed of US families receiving ESI from 1988 to 2019 based on data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, Kaiser Employer Health Benefits Survey, US Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, and federal payroll taxation rates

SUBMITTER: Hager K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10792464 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature