Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WWZ Discussion Paper ; No. 2014/06

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; Health: Other ; Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
• Subject: Firm health policies ; health circles ; health courses ; analysis of sickness absenteeism ; matching

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Huber, Martin ; Lechner, Michael ; Wunsch, Conny
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5451/unibas-ep61337
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/123462
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET