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Physical attractiveness, employment, and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the … respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278679
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Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the … respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286612
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Up in the Skies? The Relationship between Body Height and Earnings in Germany
Heineck, Guido - 2011
This paper analyzes whether taller workers earn more than their shorter counterparts. Using GSOEP data from 1991 To 2002, earnings functions are estimated for mail and female workers for both West and East German regions. The Hausman-Taylor IV Estimator is applied to account for unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067866
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A Comparison of the Relationship between Obesity and Earnings in the U.S. and Germany
Cawley, John H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Lillard, Dean R. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch 125 (2005) 1, pp. 119-129
This paper investigates and compares the relationship between obesity and earnings in the U.S. and Germany. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.) and the German Socio-Economic Panel, instrumental variables models are estimated that account for the endogeneity of body weight....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324280
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Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
. -- Attractiveness ; Beauty ; Employment ; Wages …Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the … respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989867
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Physical attractiveness, employment, and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
. -- attractiveness ; beauty ; employment ; wages …Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the … respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248144
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A comparison of the relationship between obesity and earnings in the US and Germany
Cawley, John H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Lillard, Dean R. - 2005
This paper investigates and compares the relationship between obesity and earnings in the U.S. and Germany. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.) and the German Socio-Economic Panel, instrumental variables models are estimated that account for the endogeneity of body weight....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663842
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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the … respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125479
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Employment and continuing vocational training (CVT) in the German Microcensus of the year 2003
Meinke, Kai S. - 2010
continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996464
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Employment and continuing vocational training (CVT) in the German Microcensus of the year 2003
Meinke, Kai S. - 2010
continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271474