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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2014
Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2019
Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042307
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Encouraging women's labor force participation in transition countries : government policies can stimulate female labor force participation if coherent and well thought-out
Pignatti, Norberto - 2016
such economic and social factors as traditional views of gender roles and limited government support for caregivers. Still …
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Encouraging women's labor force participation in transition countries : government policies can stimulate female labor force participation if coherent and well thought-out
Pignatti, Norberto - 2020
positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical analyses show that the introduction of cleaner process innovations …, rather than product-based ones, may also lead to higher employment. The rationale is that cleaner technologies lead to cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252936
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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A … located.Our contention that informal self-employment is voluntary is confirmed by the substantialearnings premia associated …
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