Measuring the Uninsured by Firm Size and Employment Status: Analysis of Pensionand Health Insurance Coverage from the April 1993 Current Population Survey. Part 2

摘要

The objectives of this study are to: (1) estimate health coverage and uninsuredby employment status and firm size; and (2) estimate disparities in insurance and pension availability, eligibility and coverage of wage and salary workers and the self-employed. The earlier portion of this study (dated April 1994): (1) evaluated data sources which could be used to produce estimates of the number of the uninsured by employment status and firm size and (2) estimated the insured and uninsured by firm size of the working population for 1992, 1988, 1983 and 1979. Part II, presented here: (1) provides tabulations and analyses of health insurance and pensions by employment status and firm size of both wage-and-salary workers by firm size and the self-employed; and (2) compares 1993 data with earlier analyses and tabulations of health insurance and pension data from 1988, 1983 and 1979. Part II indicates that, in 1993, an employer offering a pension plan or health insurance as a fringe benefit is a function of firm size. This was also true for the three earlier years for which comparable data are available. There is a tendency for wage-and-salary workers to receive greater fringe benefits than self-employed workers, and part-time and low-wage workers tend to receive fewer benefits than full-time and high-wage workers.