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Title: The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Unemployment Duration Among Young American Workers
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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. |