Huber, Martin and Lechner, Michael and Wunsch, Conny. (2014) Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees. WWZ Discussion Papers, 2014 (06).
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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.
Faculties and Departments: | 06 Faculty of Business and Economics > Departement Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Professuren Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Arbeitsmarktökonomie (Wunsch) 12 Special Collections > WWZ Publications > WWZ Discussion Papers and Working Papers |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Huber, Martin and Wunsch, Conny |
Item Type: | Working Paper |
Publisher: | WWZ, University of Basel |
Number of Pages: | 41 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Discussion paper / Internet publication |
Language: | English |
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Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2018 10:53 |
Deposited On: | 08 Mar 2018 08:03 |
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