Arbeitspapier
Firms and Worker Health
We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers from 1998–2018, we exploit mobility between firms to estimate how much a firm contributes to worker-level differences in utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry. We then estimate a measure of relative firm-specific utilization and explore existing correlates to help explain these effects.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16708
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Health
- Subject
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firms
health care utilization
sick leave
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ahammer, Alexander
Packham, Analisa
Smith, Jonathan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2024
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ahammer, Alexander
- Packham, Analisa
- Smith, Jonathan
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2024
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