A fresh look at the labor market height premium in Germany

Frieder Kropfhäußer ()
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Frieder Kropfhäußer: Halle Institute for Economic Research

Economics Bulletin, 2016, vol. 36, issue 3, 1376-1383

Abstract: I use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP) to analyze the relationship between height and wages in a sample of young German workers. My results show that the crude height wage premium documented in the literature is explained by unobserved heterogeneity on the sibling level. This contradicts the findings of a labor market height premium in Germany using OLS and Hausman-Taylor estimators as well as the Swedish finding of a height effect remaining after controlling for sibling fixed effects.

Keywords: Height; Wages; Labor markets; German Socioeconomic Panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07-17
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