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| Title: | | Size matters!: body height and labor market discrimination : a cross-European analysis  |
| Authors: | | Cinnirella, Francesco Winter, Joachim |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2733 |
| Abstract: | | Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show that there is a consistent height-wage premium across Europe and that it is largely due to occupational sorting. We show that height has a significant effect for the occupational sorting of employed workers but not for the self-employed. We interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the theoretical predictions of recent models on statistical discrimination and employer learning. |
| Subjects: | | height wage premium discrimination cognitive functions occupational sorting |
| JEL: | | J24 J31 J71 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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