Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
Martin Huber,
Michael Lechner and
Conny Wunsch
No 1417, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science
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 outcomes 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: 42 pages
Date: 2014-06
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