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Does obesity hurt your wages more in Dublin than in Madrid? : Evidence from ECHP
D'Hombres, Beatrice (contributor);  … - 2005
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 … significant, independently of gender. Given the nature of European labor markets, however, we believe that a common impact is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039649
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Does obesity hurt your wages more in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Brunello, Giorgio - 2005
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 … significant, independently of gender. Given the nature of European labor markets, however, we believe that a common impact is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267630
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Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP
Béatrice d’Hombres; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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 … significant, independently of gender. Given the nature of European labor markets, however, we believe that a common impact is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761688
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Does Body Weight affect Wages? Evidence from Europe.
Brunello, Giorgio; d'Hombres, Beatrice - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2006
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of body weight on wages in 9 European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786786
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Does Body Weight Affect Wages?
Brunello, Giorgio; D'HOMBRES, Béatrice - 2007
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of body weight on wages in nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052228
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The effects of vocational education on adult skills, employment and wages : what can we learn from PIAAC?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 4, pp. 315-343
We have shown that vocational education does not perform as well as academic education both in labour market outcomes and in the level of basic skills, including literacy and numeracy. This is especially true for higher education. Only at the upper secondary or post-secondary level does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863178
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772350
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Education and Earnings Growth : Evidence from 11 European Countries
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2008
We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155754
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Fast Track: Is it in the Genes? The Promotion Policy of a Large Japanese Firm
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Ohkusa, Yasushi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper studies the promotion policy of a large, hi-tech manufacturing Japanese firm. We find that the company has multiple ports of entry and hires a significant number of employees with previous job experience. In addition, cohort-peer differentiation in promotion starts much earlier than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123541
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Occupational and internal labor markets in Japan
Ōkusa, Yasushi - In: Industrial relations : a journal of economy & society 36 (1997) 4, pp. 446-473
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001228507