Workless Policy

With the Obamacare requirement that most employers offer affordable health insurance to their employees soon to become law, expect total employment to rise and hours worked/worker to fall. This is because employers will force their employees, where possible, to work less than 30 hours/week. But employers will have to compensate by hiring more workers to make up for the reduced hours/worker, unless firms have already done this. Forecasting is hard!

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