OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … women are subject. Further support is lent to this notion by the fact that wage penalties for overweight and obese women are …

OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … women are subject. Further support is lent to this notion by the fact that wage penalties for overweight and obese women are …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …

This paper considers the shape invariant modelling approach in semiparametric regression estimation. Nonparametric … estimation procedure is suggested. √N- consistency of the parameter estimates is proved. Finite sample performance of this …

-relevant characteristics, in particular higher employment rates. …

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …