The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Small Businesses
Chapter in NBER book Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 34 (2020), Robert A. Moffitt, editor A new survey of 745 small businesses shows little change in the size distribution of businesses between 2012 and 2016, except among businesses with 40–74 employees, in a way that is closely related to whether they offer health insurance coverage. Using measures of both size and voluntary regulatory compliance, the paper links these changes to the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. As of 2017, between 28,000 and 50,000 businesses nationwide appear to be reducing their number of full-time-equivalent employees to below 50 because of that mandate. This translates to roughly 250,000 positions eliminated from those businesses. This chapter is no longer available for free download, since the book has been published. To obtain a copy, you must buy the book. Order from Amazon.com in hardcover or paperback
You may be able to access the full text of this document via the Document Object Identifier. Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1086/708173 This chapter first appeared as NBER working paper w24037, The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Small Businesses, Casey B. Mulligan |
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