Datta Gupta Nabanita, Kristensen Nicolai
The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, 1052, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Eur J Health Econ. 2008 Feb;9(1):51-61. doi: 10.1007/s10198-007-0037-6. Epub 2007 Feb 13.
This paper investigates whether a satisfactory work environment can promote employee health even after controlling for socioeconomic status and life style factors. A dynamic panel model of health is estimated from worker samples from Denmark, France and Spain, employing both self-assessed general health and the presence of a functional limitation. In all three countries and for both types of health measures, a good perceived work environment is found to be a highly significant determinant of worker health even after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and minimizing reverse causality. The marginal effect is, however, larger in France and Denmark than in Spain. Several potential explanations for this finding are discussed. Further, a satisfactory working environment is found to be at least as important for employee health as socioeconomic status. Thus, investing in giving workers a satisfying work environment could be a low-cost way of improving employee health.
本文研究了即便在控制了社会经济地位和生活方式因素之后，令人满意的工作环境是否仍能促进员工健康。利用丹麦、法国和西班牙工人样本估计了一个健康动态面板模型，采用了自我评估的总体健康状况和功能受限情况这两种指标。在所有这三个国家以及对于这两种健康衡量指标而言，即便在控制了未观察到的异质性并将反向因果关系降至最低之后，良好的工作环境感知仍被发现是员工健康的一个高度显著的决定因素。然而，法国和丹麦的边际效应大于西班牙。本文讨论了这一发现的几种潜在解释。此外，令人满意的工作环境对于员工健康而言至少与社会经济地位一样重要。因此，投资于为员工提供令人满意的工作环境可能是改善员工健康的一种低成本方式。
