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Title: Family, Work, and Access to Health Insurance Among Mature Women
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Meyer, Madonna Harrington Pavalko, Eliza K. |
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Family, Work, and Access to Health Insurance Among Mature Women Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37,4 (December 1996): 311-325. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137259 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Benefits, Insurance; Employment, History; Family Characteristics; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Life Course; Life Cycle Research; Marital Status; Racial Differences; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use a life course approach to address much ignored variation in access to health insurance. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, we reinterpret the role of both family and employment characteristics in shaping coverage. Mature women are more likely to be insured as wives than as workers, but that safety net is only available to married women. As a result, unmarried women are two to three times as likely to be uninsured or to rely on public programs such as Medicaid. And because they are significantly less likely to be married to a covered worker, Black women are two to three times more likely to be uninsured or to rely on public programs. Given rising instability in employment and marital status across the life course, stable health insurance coverage can only be attained by universal rather than employment-based or family-based schemes. (AUTHOR) |
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Meyer, Madonna Harrington and Eliza K. Pavalko. "Family, Work, and Access to Health Insurance Among Mature Women." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37,4 (December 1996): 311-325.
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