We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … 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 …

health insurance, pension coverage, dental insurance, vacation pay, and training/educational benefits) and working conditions …

There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most … over half. The differential effect of local policies also improved health outcomes: we find that adoption of a local by … through which local smoking by-laws improve health outcomes, and showing that the effects of these laws are strongly …

developing more effective workplace and public policies to improve health in older ages …Occupation is discussed as a social determinant of health. Occupation has received little attention in this light in … health, and mother's education. We contend that first occupation is a choice made relatively early in life that affects …

of treatment on total medical expenditures, health behaviors, employee productivity, or self-reported health status in …

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …