Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees
Journal
Journal of health economics
ISSN
0167-6296
ISSN-Digital
1879-1646
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2015-09
Author(s)
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.
Language
English
Keywords
Firm health policies
health circles
health courses
analysis of sickness absenteeism
matching
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Publisher
North-Holland Publ.
Publisher place
Amsterdam
Number
43
Start page
170
End page
189
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
232425
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