Productivity or discrimination? An economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market

This article investigates the excess-weight penalty in income for men and women in the Swedish labor market, using longitudinal data. It compares two identification strategies, OLS and individual fixed effects, and distinguishes between two main sources of excess-weight penalties, lower productivity...

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Autores principales: Dackehag, Margareta, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Nordin, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24903023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-014-0611-7
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description This article investigates the excess-weight penalty in income for men and women in the Swedish labor market, using longitudinal data. It compares two identification strategies, OLS and individual fixed effects, and distinguishes between two main sources of excess-weight penalties, lower productivity because of bad health and discrimination. For men, the analysis finds a significant obesity penalty related to discrimination when applying individual fixed effects. We do not find any significant excess-weight penalty for women.
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spelling pubmed-44645992015-06-17 Productivity or discrimination? An economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market Dackehag, Margareta Gerdtham, Ulf-G. Nordin, Martin Eur J Health Econ Original Paper This article investigates the excess-weight penalty in income for men and women in the Swedish labor market, using longitudinal data. It compares two identification strategies, OLS and individual fixed effects, and distinguishes between two main sources of excess-weight penalties, lower productivity because of bad health and discrimination. For men, the analysis finds a significant obesity penalty related to discrimination when applying individual fixed effects. We do not find any significant excess-weight penalty for women. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-06-06 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4464599/ /pubmed/24903023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-014-0611-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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title_short Productivity or discrimination? An economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market
title_sort productivity or discrimination? an economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the swedish labor market
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24903023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-014-0611-7
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