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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013
significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …
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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 86-96
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Height, weight, and entry earnings of female graduates in Taiwan
Tao, Hung-lin - In: Economics and human biology 13 (2014), pp. 85-98
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No country for fat men? : obesity, earnings, skills, and health among 450,000 Swedish men
Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941418
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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health Among 450,000 Swedish Men
Lundborg, Petter - 2010
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147541
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
experienced had they never migrated by using the wage structure of stayers. We find evidence that the selection patterns in …
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Regional distribution of discrimination forms in the labor market in Romania
Dobre, Mihaela Hrisanta; Dorel, Ailenei; Amalia, Cristescu - 2011
discrimination by sex, nationality, and age; wage gap and occupational segregation by gender. They will also assess the effects of …
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Heterogeneity and Earning Dissatisfaction of Elderly Labourforce in India
Ghosh, Dona - 2017
self-employment and casual wage earnings of the unorganised sector. Coupled with age related discrimination, since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954435
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Heterogeneity and Earning Dissatisfaction of Elderly Labourforce in India
Ghosh, Dona - 2017
self-employment and casual wage earnings of the unorganised sector. Coupled with age related discrimination, since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954444
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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?
Gana, Rajaram - 2018
immigrants, the average wage of native workers is impacted as follows: a) there is about a 5% drop (in native worker wages) for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911426