with instrument validity. The results of the IV models indicate weight reduces earnings and employment and increases social … mass index across many genetic loci. We estimate IV models of the effect of BMI on labor market outcomes using Finnish data … that have many strengths: genetic information, measured body mass index, and administrative earnings records that are free …

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 …

examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and employment, hours of work, earnings and life …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

Germany and asks the personnel managers about their expectations concerning employment adjustments. We find that employment … larger the expected reduction in employment. Employment adjustments are more pronounced in those industries and plants which … works council. In contrast, employment is not found to increase if the minimum wage is reduced by about 10 percent. This …

This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … obese/overweight and healthy 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 healthy …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

, which contains information on height and weight for 2004 and 2006, along with immigration status and labor market outcomes …-only sample and then expand the sample to compare the experience of these immigrants to natives with similar weight and other … to be obese than natives, and also evidence of an assimilation effect in which immigrants' weight increases with their …