2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2005.06.001
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Obesity, weight status and employability: Empirical evidence from a French national survey

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“…A negative association between body weight and wages is well established in the labor economics literature. It has been observed in the United States (Averett and Korenman, 1996;Cawley, 2004;Conley and Glauber, 2006, among others), as well as in European countries such as Denmark (Greve, 2008), England (Morris, 2006), Finland (Johansson, Backerman, Kiiskinen, and Helivaara, 2009), France (Paraponaris, Saliba, and Ventelou, 2005), Germany (Cawley, Grabka, and Dean, 2005), Sweden (Lundborg, Nystedt, and Rooth, 2010), and even in Taiwan (Tao, 2008). …”
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confidence: 93%
“…A negative association between body weight and wages is well established in the labor economics literature. It has been observed in the United States (Averett and Korenman, 1996;Cawley, 2004;Conley and Glauber, 2006, among others), as well as in European countries such as Denmark (Greve, 2008), England (Morris, 2006), Finland (Johansson, Backerman, Kiiskinen, and Helivaara, 2009), France (Paraponaris, Saliba, and Ventelou, 2005), Germany (Cawley, Grabka, and Dean, 2005), Sweden (Lundborg, Nystedt, and Rooth, 2010), and even in Taiwan (Tao, 2008). …”
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confidence: 93%
“…According to the 2003 Decennial Health Survey of INSEE (Paraponaris et al, 2005), the percentage of overweight has increased from 32.9% to 37.5% and from 6.3% to 9.9% for obesity between 1980 and 2003. The health problems related to obesity are consequently increasing.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Including the indirect costs such as lost days of work and reduced productivity in addition to direct costs such as personal health care, hospital care, physician services and medications, Wolf and Colditz (2006) estimate the total cost of obesity in the US in 1995 to a total of $99.2 billion. Using French data from the Decennial Health Survey, Paraponaris et al (2005) show that overweight and obesity status reduce the employability of workers. Moreover, using a prevalence-based approach identifying the costs incurred during 1992 by obese people, Levy et al (1995) find a conservative estimate of direct and indirect costs of obesity for France of more than 1.8 billion C = for direct costs and 0.1 billion C = for indirect costs.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In France, Paraponaris, Saliba, and Ventelou (2005) assessed that the percentage of overweight or obese individuals had increased since 1980 from 32.9 to 37.5 for overweight and from 6.3% to 9.9% for obese in 2003. In 1992, Detournay et al (2000 and Levy et al (1995) estimated the medical cost of obesity in France to be in the range 0.6-1.1 billion euros, which represented 0.7-1.5% of the country's total health expenditures.…”
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