Publication Date:
2015-05-12
Description:
The Affordable Care Act has implications for the source of health insurance for farm households and potentially how much of their time they allocate to off-farm jobs and even the rate at which new operators enter farming. The Act will likely have impacts for the 1% of farms defined to be large employers, which are required to provide coverage for their workers or pay a penalty. While a very small share of all farms, they account for upward of 40% of the production for some commodities. How they adjust their use of farm labor in response to the Affordable Care Act has implications for farm structure.
Keywords:
I18 - Government Policy
;
Regulation
;
Public Health, J32 - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits
;
Private Pensions, Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Print ISSN:
2040-5790
Electronic ISSN:
2040-5804
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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Economics
