%0 Report
        %A Ahammer, Alexander
%A Packham, Analisa
%A Smith, Jonathan
        %T Firms and Worker Health
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16708
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16708
        %X 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.
        %K firms
%K health care utilization
%K sick leave