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job lock: a standalone construct

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Labor economics

workers staying in jobs they would otherwise leave because changing jobs would cost them employer-provided health insurance.

In labor economics, job lock refers to workers staying in jobs they would otherwise leave because changing jobs would cost them employer-provided health insurance. This meaning comes from Madrian (1994) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.[1]

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References

Madrian, B. C. (1994). Employment-Based Health Insurance and Job Mobility: Is there Evidence of Job-Lock? The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109(1), 27-54. https://doi.org/10.2307/2118427

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