Does body weight affect wages? Evidence from Europe
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of body
weight on wages in nine European countries. When we pool the available data across countries and
years, we find that a 10% increase in the average body mass index reduces the real earnings of males
and females by 3.27% and 1.86%, respectively. Since European culture, society and labour market are
heterogeneous, we estimate separate regressions for Northern and Southern Europe and find that the
negative impact of the body mass index on earnings is larger ¿ and statistically significant ¿ in the latter
area.
D'HOMBRES Beatrice;
BRUNELLO Giorgio;
2010-08-17
Elsevier
JRC36361
1570-677X,
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ehb,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC36361,
10.1016/j.ehb.2006.11.002,
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