title: Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees.
abstract: This paper investigates the average effects of firm-provided workplace health promotion measures on labour market outcomes 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 and 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 job stability 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 insurance or early retirement schemes.
authors: University of Fribourg, Department of Economics, Fribourg, Switzerland. Electronic address: martin.huber@unifr.ch.
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Huber
authors: University of St. Gallen, Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Electronic address: michael.lechner@unisg.ch.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Lechner
authors: University of Basel, Department of Labour Economics, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: conny.wunsch@unibas.ch.
authors: Conny
authors: C
authors: Wunsch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D017046:Cost Savings; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057216:Propensity Score; D018582:Sick Leave / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends
keywords: Analysis of sickness absenteeism; Firm health policies; Health circles; Health courses; Matching