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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415269
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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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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015
behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430529
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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2020
behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222384
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514542
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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