a. Empirically, low-wage jobs in the United States are less likely to offer health benefits than high-wage jobs. Does this fact contradict the theory of compensating wage differentials? Use a diagram with Health Benefits on the x-axis and Wage on the y-axis to illustrate your argument. [Hint: consider workers on different indifference curves.]

b. Given the facts in the first part, if a public policymaker would like to increase health insurance coverage, is it a good idea to mandate that employers provide health insurance to all employees (thereby extending coverage to low-income employees)?