Arbeitspapier
Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WWZ Discussion Paper ; No. 2014/06
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health: Other
Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
- Thema
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Firm health policies
health circles
health courses
analysis of sickness absenteeism
matching
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Huber, Martin
Lechner, Michael
Wunsch, Conny
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
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Basel
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2014
- DOI
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doi:10.5451/unibas-ep61337
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Huber, Martin
- Lechner, Michael
- Wunsch, Conny
- University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
Entstanden
- 2014
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