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The Impact of Health on Productivity: Macro and Microeconomic Evidence and Policy Implications
Tompa, Emile - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
This chapter by Emile Tompa provides a comprehensive review of the theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence of the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well beyond the obvious effect of health on capacity to work both...
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Investigating exploitation and productivity in explaining the disability wage penalty
Saloniki, Eirini-Christina - 2014
Work, 1996). In addition, legislation (Disability Discrimination Act, 1995) prohibits discrimination hence firms are not …
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A productivity assessment of PWD employees in a Philippine company
Seva, Rosemary R. - In: DLSU business & economics review 29 (2020) 2, pp. 93-103
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Productivity or discrimination? : an economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market
Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Nordin, Martin - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 16 (2015) 6, pp. 589-601
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Gaining more, producing less : the link between an obese workforce and firm-level productivity
Mazhar, Ummad - In: Journal of economic studies 50 (2023) 6, pp. 1190-1209
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How Obesity Can Affect Productivity? The Case of Malaysia
Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo - 2019
This paper shows how obesity can affect the productivity of any country. In our case, we evaluate the specific case of … Malaysia. The same research evaluates the obesity levels among the three largest races of Malaysia such as Malay, Indians, and … Chinese. The main objective of this research is to evaluate if exist any relationship between obesity and productivity, then …
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655284
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619180
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623829
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study
Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323024