We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …

employment. The evidence on the effect of the average income tax rate on pretax wages is more mixed, but it also points to the …We study the empirical relationship between labor taxation and pretax wages in Italy. We find that higher tax … progressivity increases pretax wages. To explain this result, we introduce in an informal way a relative wage effect and argue that …