We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …

that employment is not significantly associated with BMI and waist circumference when these are entered linearly in the … and obesity and employment status among older Irish adults. Employment status is regressed on one of the following … measures of fatness: BMI and waist circumference entered linearly as continuous variables and obesity as a categorical variable …

stature is associated with an increase in earnings of 7.5% for men and 13.0% for women, even after controlling for an … extensive set of productivity variables. When the height premium is estimated by sector, it is 12.3% for self-employed men and … 18.0% for self-employed women; a height premium of 11.1% is also estimated for women in the private sector. In the public …

-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and persistent effect on subsequent employment and earnings. After … of them leave the labor market via disability retirement. Injured workers who manage to stay in employment incur … persistent earnings losses. The effects are somewhat stronger for sub-groups of workers who are typically less attached to the …

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in … earnings data are available only for formal-sector workers (salaried employees). This posed problems for the estimation of … earnings equations, because selection into different labour market statuses is likely to be non-random. In order to describe …

This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … obese/overweight and normal weight individuals. Unlike other observational studies which are generally based on obese and … training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than normal …

participation suggesting a causal effect of physical activity on employment, especially for males. …

employment. This is done by matching individual level data with group specific cumulative AIDS mortality rates. Exploiting the … South Africans). Furthermore, I also find evidence that the epidemic has lowered employment in South Africa. This result is … concentrated among those with the lowest levels of education and employment. Although not large in magnitude, these effects are …

employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were …