- In 1996, occupation was clearly linked to the probability of a worker’s having ESI, but the linkage was not very clear.
- Managers, professionals, and technical workers were most likely to have the coverage.
- Workers with low skills and little education (laborers and farm or fishery workers) were least likely to have the coverage.
- Workers in administrative support were very likely to have the coverage, perhaps because they work closely with managers, professionals, and technical workers.
- Skilled workers, machine operators and transportation or moving workers were more likely to be unionized and so to have coverage through bargaining agreements.
- Service workers tended to work for small firms which are less likely to offer coverage to their workers, especially their low paid workers.
- Sales workers were a very mixed group of professional/ technical and retail sales workers. Perhaps those selling more technical goods predominated and thus increased the chance that the entire group had ESI in 1996.
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