Obesity, Employment and Wages in Europe

Jaume Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque

A chapter in The Economics of Obesity, 2006, pp 187-217 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This paper examines the associations between obesity, employment status and wages for several European countries. Our results provide weak evidence that obese workers are more likely to be unemployed or tend to be more segregated in self-employment jobs than their non-obese counterparts. We also find difficult to detect statistically significant relationships between obesity and wages. As previously reported in the literature, the associations between obesity, unemployment and wages seem to be different for men and women. Moreover, heterogeneity is also found across countries. Such heterogeneity can be somewhat explained by some labor market institutions, such as collective bargaining coverage and employer-provided health insurance.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17008-9

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