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Author: Groves, Jeremy
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Groves, Jeremy Wilcox, Virginia |
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The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Unemployment Duration Among Young American Workers Working Paper, Social Science Research Network, September 2022. Also: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4205760 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Obesity; Unemployment Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Obesity has a profound effect on the working careers of Americans. Prior studies pertaining to workers in other countries report that obese women experienced longer spells of unemployment than normal weight peers. However, the effect of obesity on unemployment duration has not been studies for American workers. To address this gap in the literature, we report estimates of the effects of overweight and obesity from a proportional hazards model of unemployment duration that controls for unobserved individual characteristics. Using a data sample of young workers drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997), our findings indicate that, on average, overweight and obese job seekers experienced significantly longer spells of unemployment. The effects differed by race and sex: Women experienced longer spells across body mass index (BMI) groups and Black women had longer unemployment spells compared to White women in similar BMI groups. In contrast, BMI caused no impact on the duration of unemployment spells among men nor for Hispanic workers of either sex. |
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Groves, Jeremy and Virginia Wilcox. "The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Unemployment Duration Among Young American Workers." Working Paper, Social Science Research Network, September 2022. |
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Groves, Jeremy Wilcox, Virginia |
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The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Unemployment Duration Among Young American Workers Economics & Human Biology 51 (December 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101280 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Modeling, Hazard Rate; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Obesity; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration Obesity has a profound effect on the working careers of Americans. Prior studies pertaining to workers in other countries report that obese women experienced longer spells of unemployment than normal weight peers. However, the effect of obesity on unemployment duration has not been studied for American workers. To address this gap in the literature, we report estimates of the effects of overweight and obesity from a proportional hazards model of unemployment duration that controls for unobserved individual characteristics. Using a data sample of young workers drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997), our findings indicate that, on average, overweight and obese job seekers experienced significantly longer spells of unemployment. The effects differed by race, sex, and ethnicity: Overweight and obese White and Black women experienced significantly longer spells than White women with normal body mass index (BMI) levels. Although overweight White and Black men had longer unemployment spells compared to White men with normal BMI levels, the magnitudes were smaller than those for White and Black women. In contrast, overweight Hispanic women had shorter duration of unemployment spells compared to White women with normal BMI levels. |
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Bibliography Citation
Groves, Jeremy and Virginia Wilcox. "The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Unemployment Duration Among Young American Workers." Economics & Human Biology 51 (December 2023).
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