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