Why do employees keep choosing the high-premium health care plan? An investigation of the financial consequences and logic of employee health care plan selections

Human Resource Management

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 317-342

  Sturman, Michael C ^a   Boudreau, John W ^a   Corcoran, Richard J ^a  

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EID: 0040521439     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-050x(199623)35:3<317::aid-hrm3>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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