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Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Averett, Susan - 2014

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other …, though our sample includes both recent arrivals and those who have been in the UK for decades. We first analyze an immigrant … observable characteristics. We find support for the "healthy immigrant hypothesis" that suggests that immigrants are less likely …

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Exploring Gender Specific Wage Differentials Between Obese and Non-Obese Adults : Evidence from the NLSY

Daouli, Joan - 2010

indices and synthetic mobility measures for moving in-and-out of the obese group. The results clearly show that obesity is a …

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A model of worker investment in safety and its effects on accidents and wages

Guardado, José R.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

risk and wages. We test the model's predictions using obesity as a proxy for worker disinvestments in human capital and …

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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences

Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other differences. The twin pair difference estimates from...

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Occupational Characteristics and the Obesity Wage Penalty

Shinall, Jennifer Bennett - 2016

This paper demonstrates that obese women are more likely to work in jobs that emphasize physical activity, but they are less likely to work in jobs that emphasize public interaction. The same patterns in occupational characteristics do not exist for obese men. In light of prior literature...

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Uncovering the roots of obesity-based wage discrimination: the role of job characteristics

Dolado, Juan J.; Guerra, Airam - 2021

97) for the US, we test whether residual wage gaps (once observed differences in productivity related to obesity are …

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant …

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Hispanic Americans in the labor market : patterns over time and across generations

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2022

immigrant generations, Hispanics experience substantial improvements in education and earnings between first …

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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2005

, a finding that has implications for immigrant settlement policies. -- computers ; internet ; immigrants ; language …

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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labor Market. Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter? (Los Salarios de los Inmigrantes en el Mercado de Trabajo Español. ¿Importa el Origen del Capi...

Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2011

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...

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