Obesity, Wages and Employment in Europe

Jaume Garcia Villar and Climent Quintana-Domeque

Labor and Demography from University Library of Munich, Germany

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 association between obesity, unemployment and wages seems 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 the collective bargaining coverage and the employer-provided health insurance.

Keywords: obesity; labor market; heterogeneity; institutions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2005-08-06, Revised 2006-04-03
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