TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ahammer, Alexander
AU  - Packham, Analisa
AU  - Smith, Jonathan
        TI  - Firms and Worker Health
        PY  - 2024/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16708
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16708
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - firms
KW  - health care utilization
KW  - sick leave
        ER  -