The impact of obesity on wages: the role of personal interactions and job selection
Moro, Andrea ; Tello-Trillo, Sebastian ; Tempesti, Tommaso
Labour. Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
2019
33
2
June
125-146
wages ; discrimination ; obesity
Wages and wage payment systems
https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12145
English
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"We estimate the effects of obesity on wages accounting for the endogenous selection of workers into jobs requiring different levels of personal interactions in the workplace. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 combined with detailed information about occupation characteristics from O*Net, we confirm the results from the literature finding a wage penalty for obese White women. This penalty is higher in jobs that require a high level of personal interactions. Accounting for job selection does not significantly change the estimated wage penalty."
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