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Consequences of the obesity epidemic for immigrants : when migrants move to countries with high obesity rates, does assimilation lead to labor market penalties and higher health ca...

Argys, Laura M. - 2015

Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass … index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and … the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher obesity rates, it is important to understand the consequences 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 - 2014

Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese …. Understanding whether obesity is associated with adverse labor market outcomes and ascertaining the source of these outcomes are …

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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

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Does Europe need a health union?

Bucher, Anne - Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory - 2022

Health outcomes in the European Union are good by international standards, even compared to other developed economies, and improved continuously before COVID-19. This reflects the alignment of the objectives of improving health and wellbeing with the overall socio-economic objective of...

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The failure of global public health governance : a forensic analysis

Bucher, Anne; Papakōnstantinu, Giōrgos; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2022

COVID-19 has underlined that in a context of recurring pandemics, public health is a basic global public good, the provision of which presupposes effective and timely collective action at global level. It has exposed the limitations of the prevailing framework. This Policy Contribution positions...

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