Firms and Worker Health

Alexander Ahammer, Analisa Packham () and Jonathan Smith
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Analisa Packham: Vanderbilt University

No 16708, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers from 1998–2018, we exploit mobility between firms to estimate how much a firm contributes to worker-level differences in utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry. We then estimate a measure of relative firm-specific utilization and explore existing correlates to help explain these effects.

Keywords: firms; health care utilization; sick leave (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I1 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64 pages
Date: 2024-01
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