TY  - CHAP
AB  - 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.
VL  - 17
SN  - 978-1-84950-482-9, 978-0-7623-1406-5/0731-2199
DO  - 10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17008-9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17008-9
AU  - Garcia Jaume
AU  - Quintana-Domeque Climent
ED  - Kristian Bolin
ED  - John Cawley
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - Obesity, Employment and Wages in Europe
T2  - The Economics of Obesity
T3  - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 187
EP  - 217
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -