The Labor Market Impacts of GLP 1s

Meltem Daysal, Camille Fredrickson, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Mircea Trandafir and Jonathan Zhang
Additional contact information
Meltem Daysal: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Camille Fredrickson: University of Chicago
Ida Lykke Kristiansen: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Mircea Trandafir: ROCKWOOL Foundation
Jonathan Zhang: Duke University

No 26-17, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Abstract: We estimate the causal impacts of GLP 1 treatment on labor market outcomes using linked Danish administrative data and a matched stacked difference in-differences design. We compare patients who initiate GLP 1 treatment during the first two years of Semaglutide availability to observably similar patients who initiate four years later. We find that GLP 1 treatment reduces long term sickness leave by 17.3%. We estimate total fiscal benefits of GLP 1 initiation of approximately 1.3 1.5% of annual labor income per employed individual. We do not detect statistically significant or economically meaningfulimpacts on income, labor force participation, or employment over four years.

Keywords: Health; Public Economics; GLP 1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2026-08-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econ.ku.dk/cebi/publikationer/working-papers/CEBI_WP_17-26.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kud:kucebi:2617

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) Oester Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, DK-1353 Copenhagen K., Denmark. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thomas Hoffmann ().