TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Huber, Martin
AU  - Lechner, Michael
AU  - Wunsch, Conny
        TI  - Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
        PY  - 2014/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8297
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8297
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - firm health policies
KW  - health circles
KW  - health courses
KW  - analysis of sickness absenteeism
KW  - matching
        ER  -