Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282835 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16708
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
firms
health care utilization
sick leave
JEL: 
H51
I1
J2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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