Making sense of the labor market height premium. Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.

Autor/inn/en	Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina; Islam, Mahnaz
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Making sense of the labor market height premium. Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Zulage für Körpergröße verstehen. Erkenntnisse aus dem BHPS.
Quelle	Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research (2008), 11 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 14007
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Einkommensunterschied; Lohnhöhe; Arbeitskraft; Berufswahl; Arbeitspapier; Physiologischer Faktor; Großbritannien
Abstract	"We use nine waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to investigate the large labor market height premium observed in the BHPS, where each inch of height is associated with a 1.5 percent increase in wages, for both men and women. We find that half of the premium can be explained by the association between height and educational attainment among BHPS participants. Of the remaining premium, half can be explained by taller individuals selecting into higher status occupations and industries. These effects are consistent with our earlier findings that taller individuals on average have greater cognitive function, which manifests in greater educational attainment, and better labor market opportunities." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1997 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/1