{"id":2543,"date":"2012-02-13T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2012-02-12T00:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T05:39:24","slug":"health-care-benefits-employers-and-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/health-care-benefits-employers-and-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Benefits, Employers and Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021212_0520_HealthCareB1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Economist<\/em> recently took a look at employee benefits and noted that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Part of the reason why wages in America have stagnated is that employers have increasingly incorporated lucrative benefits as part of an employee&#8217;s compensation package.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest benefits relate to health care. As life expectancy increases and the cost of health care rises, a commitment by the employer to provide health care is worth a lot.<\/li>\n<li>However, unlike pensions which have increasingly become potable, health benefits do not transfer from one employer to another. This discourages employees from switching their jobs which is a problem because job mobility has become increasingly important in today&#8217;s economy.<\/li>\n<li>Statistics show that if not for employer health benefits job turnover rates would be 25% higher. The current state of affairs also discourages self-employment and entrepreneurship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about why job mobility is important in today&#8217;s economy, as well as the historical developments behind this phenomenon, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2012\/02\/labour-markets\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2012\/02\/labour-markets\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist recently took a look at employee benefits and noted that: Part of the reason why wages in America have stagnated is that employers have increasingly incorporated lucrative benefits as part of an employee&#8217;s compensation package. The biggest benefits relate to health care. As life expectancy increases and the cost of health care rises, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021212_0520_HealthCareB1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}