A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Jan van Ours

No 473, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking.

Keywords: smoking; drinking; earnings regressions; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 D12 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2002-04
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Published - published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886

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