Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

No 8297, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich survey-based and administrative information on firms, workers and regions, we apply a flexible propensity score matching approach that controls for selection on observables as well as on time-constant unobserved factors. While the effects of analysing sickness absenteeism appear to be rather limited, our results suggest that health circles/courses increase tenure and decrease the number of job changes across various age groups. A key finding is that health circles/courses strengthen the labour force attachment of elderly employees (51-60), implying potential cost savings for public transfer schemes such as unemployment or early retirement benefits.

Keywords: firm health policies; health circles; health courses; analysis of sickness absenteeism; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I19 J32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2014-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eur, nep-hea, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015,43, 170-189

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