Welcome!
I am a Professor for Health Services Research and Head of the Department of Health Services Research and Gender Medicine at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. I am an applied microeconometrician with main research interests in health services research, aging, and labor. I am particularly interested in the intersection of these areas.
Here you can find my Curriculum vitae
Latest publications
Health of Parents, their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers, with Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold and Julia Schmieder, Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43(3).
The Covid-19 pandemic and the utilization of health care services: Evidence from Austrian register data, with Gerald J. Pruckner, Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health, 2025, 9(4).
How Does Parental Divorce affect Children’s Long-term Outcomes?, with Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, 2024, Journal of Public Economics 239, 105201.
Latest working papers and reports
Ungleichheit im oö. Gesundheitssystems - Eine Befundaufnahme anhand Registerdaten, with Gerald J. Pruckner and Katrin Zocher, 2025, Report für Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich; Link
Hospital Crowding and Patient Outcomes, with Felix Glaser and Gerald J. Pruckner, 2025, Link
Socio-Economic Inequality in Mortality and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Cancer Patients, with Felix Glaser, 2024, Link
Sick Happens: The Effect of Worker Health Shocks on Coworkers’ Labor Market and Health Outcomes, with Rene Wiesinger, 2024. Link
Current funded research project
OeNB Project „Are the Alps a Land of Opportunity?”
Contact
E-maiI: wolfgang.frimmel@jku.at