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 …

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This paper estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … the labour force. The effect of cohort size on wages is identified through an instrumental variables strategy which, in … groups. The results support the hypothesis that cohort size has a negative effect on male wages, particularly for the highly …

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …