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Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

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  • Huber, Martin

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  • Lechner, Michael

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  • Wunsch, Conny

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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.

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Paper provided by University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science in its series Economics Working Paper Series with number 1417.

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Length: 42 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2014
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Handle: RePEc:usg:econwp:2014:17
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Keywords: Firm health policies; health circles; health courses; analysis of sickness absenteeism; matching;

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  • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
  • I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
  • J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions

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