Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using Quantile Regression Model

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Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using Quantile Regression Model

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Vincenzo Atella ()
Noemi Pace
Daniela Vuri ()

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The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between obesity and wages, using data for nine countries from the European Com- munity Household Panel (ECHP) over the period 1998-2001. We improve upon the existing literature by adopting a Quantile Regression approach to characterize the heterogenous impact of obesity at different points of the wage distribution. Our results show that i) the evidence obtained from mean regression and pooled analysis hides a significant amount of heterogeneity as the relationship between obesity and wages differs across countries and wages quantiles and ii) cultural, environmental or insti- tutional settings do not seem to be able to explain differences among countries, leaving room for a pure discriminatory effect hypothesis.

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Paper provided by CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY in its series CHILD Working Papers with number wp23_07.

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Length: 55 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2007
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NEP-ALL-2008-01-05 (All new papers)
NEP-LAB-2008-01-05 (Labour Economics)

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