Firms and Worker Healthcare Utilization
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Speaker(s)Alexander Ahammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Germany)
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FieldEmpirical Microeconomics
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LocationTinbergen Institute Amsterdam, room 1.01
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Date and time
March 04, 2025
15:30 - 16:30
Abstract
We estimate the role of firms in worker's healthcare utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers, 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 25 percent of the variation in across-worker healthcare expenditures. Effects are present for both physical and mental healthcare. We then estimate a model of firm-specific utilization in search of correlates to help explain these effects and provide new evidence of compensating differentials. Joint paper with Analisa Packham and Jonathan Smith.