@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8297,
            	author={Huber, Martin and Lechner, Michael and Wunsch, Conny},
            	title={Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees},
            	year={2014},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={8297},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8297},
	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 out-comes 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.},
	keywords={firm health policies;health circles;health courses;analysis of sickness absenteeism;matching},
            }