BMI and Employment: Is There an Overweight Premium?

Barbieri, Paolo Nicola

doi:10.1007/s40797-018-0080-8

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“…Nonetheless, the assumption of a vicious cycle between poverty and obesity needs to be nuanced. In recent decades, a growing number of works have highlighted the increasing social acceptance of excess weight in societies where overweight and obesity have become the physical norm, as is the case in the US, England, Germany and Mexico (Janssen et al, 2004;Prina & Royer, 2014;OECD, 2014;Robinson & Christiansen, 2014;Kropfhäußer & Sunder, 2015;Barbieri, 2018). In addition, technological innovations may explain the recent overweight premiums observed in these societies.…”

Section: Pathways In the Relationship Between Weight And Wagesmentioning

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“…According to the health economics literature, a semiparametric partially linear estimator is a good way to explore the assumed nonlinear relationship between bodyweight and wages (Shimokawa, 2008;Caliendo & Gehrsitz, 2016;Barbieri, 2018). The less restrictive form of this semiparametric estimator allows the fitted value of individual WHtR on log-hourly wages to be clearly visualized in a plot without requiring prior assumptions on the functional form.…”

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“…Indeed, despite the wide diffusion of the Western thin ideal around the world, 5 through the cultural globalization process, pro-fat social norms may persist in Mexico, especially among the most vulnerable social groups (Bargain & Zeidan, 2019). Furthermore, recent studies support the assumption that the generalization of overweight in Mexican society leads to social acceptance of excess weight (Prina & Royer, 2014), as observed in England and Germany (Barbieri, 2018;Kropfhäußer & Sunder, 2015). Hence, based on the three waves of the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS, 2002(MxFLS, , 2005(MxFLS, -06 and 2009, in this paper, we explore potential changes across time in the weight-wage relationship in Mexico.…”

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“…In contradictory fashion, more recent research shows that the relationship between weight and labor market outcomes is changing in rich economies where overweight is predominant, such as England and Germany (Barbieri, 2018;Kropfhäußer & Sunder, 2015).…”

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“…Comparing studies that focus on the 1990s with more recent research, we observed that the relationship has evolved considerably in a few years. It will be recalled that Kropfhäußer & Sunder (2015) and Barbieri (2018) found an overweight premium for men and women on the German and English labor markets in the 2000s, whereas older studies describe quite different stories. For example in the 1990s, Cawley, Grabka, & Lillard (2005) found no significant relationship in Germany.…”

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Dynamiques de la relation entre corpulence et salaire dans les pays émergents : le cas du Mexique

Levasseur¹

2021

Revue d'Économie Du Développement

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This article explores the dynamics of the relationship between bodyweight and wages inMexico, an emerging country with high obesity prevalence. For this empirical study, we used observational panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (2002Survey ( -2012. First, we descriptively investigated the relationship between body weight and wages and its dynamics across time. We then implemented a difference-in-differences design that performs estimates robust to time-invariant heterogeneity. Our results show that the relationship between bodyweight and hourly wages depends on gender, time and occupation status. While the results revealed significant wage penalties across time for overweight service workers, we observed a relative acceptance of excess weight in other employment sectors, especially among high-skill jobs. Consequently, our results have important implications for public policies.

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Dynamiques de la relation entre corpulence et salaire dans les pays émergents : le cas du Mexique

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Social distortion in weight perception: a decomposition of the obesity epidemic

Barbieri

2022

Econ Polit

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This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with a high prevalence of obesity. The theoretical model show that when obesity is common it less likely to be recognized as a problem by mitigating individual's health concerns. We prove that our empirical measures of such a social component are significant in influencing individual weight using regional data from the Health Survey for England. We use the marked difference in obesity rates between 2002 and 2006 to undertake a Fairlie decomposition analysis. Our findings suggest that when we exclude social norms our estimates explain less than 50% of the obesity gap. When we include the social norms our estimates explain between 50% and 80% of the overall obesity gap. By stratifying the result by gender we are able to prove that men are more susceptible to social distortion, especially the low-skilled. Medium-and low-skilled women, similarly, are more susceptible to environmental pressure than highly-skilled women, who result as being completely unaffected by it. Men are also affected by a broader set of environmental pressures, with respect to women. Overall, these results suggest that an individual's concern over his or her body weight is closely related to the actual weight of his or her reference network.

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The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers

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2023

Economics & Human Biology

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BMI and Employment: Is There an Overweight Premium?

Cited by 7 publications

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Dynamiques de la relation entre corpulence et salaire dans les pays émergents : le cas du Mexique

Dynamiques de la relation entre corpulence et salaire dans les pays émergents : le cas du Mexique

Social distortion in weight perception: a decomposition of the obesity epidemic

The impact of overweight and obesity on unemployment duration among young American workers

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