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March 1999

Comparing benefit costs for full- and part-time workers

Michael K. Lettau, Thomas C. Buchmueller

Health insurance appears to be the only benefit representing a true "quasi-fixed cost" to employers, meaning that the cost per hour worked is greater for part-time employees than it is for full-time employees

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