Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 43, issue C, 170-189

Abstract: This paper investigates the average effects of firm-provided workplace health promotion measures 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 and 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 job stability 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 insurance or early retirement schemes.

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)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.07.002

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