%0 Report
        %A Huber, Martin
%A Lechner, Michael
%A Wunsch, Conny
        %T Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8297
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8297
        %X 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.
        %K firm health policies
%K health circles
%K health courses
%K analysis of sickness absenteeism
%K matching