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The Economic Impact of Obesity

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2019) | Viewed by 2787

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Euna Han

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Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Yonsei University, Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea
Interests: health economics; pharmaceutical health services research; econometric methods for policy evaluations using administrative data; economics of obesity: contextual determinants and non-health outcomes; economics of pharmaceuticals; children and adolescents health behaviors
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Dear Colleagues,

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the globe in newly developed and developing countries, as well as in developed countries. Obesity is a well-recognized risk factor for various illnesses, including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Being overweight or obese has negative implications in social aspects as well. As obesity is often controllable at an individual level, it results in associations with insufficient self-control, unhealthy behavior, and poor self-esteem and time management. Furthermore, one’s weight or obesity status is visible. Assuming that employers desire healthy workers with positive social characteristics, all these aspects of being overweight or obese are likely to be associated with disadvantages in the job market.

For this Special Issue, we invite submissions that examine the broad association of obesity with labor market outcomes, including employment, job quality, job sector positioning, and pecuniary achievements.

Dr. Euna Han
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • obesity
  • job market
  • wages
  • employment
  • labor market outcomes

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13 pages, 1061 KiB  
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The Moderation of Obesity Penalty on Job Market Outcomes by Employment Efforts
by Rosemary Ahn, Tae Hyun Kim and Euna Han
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(16), 2974; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16162974 - 19 Aug 2019
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The current study explores the moderation of the relationship between obesity and labor market outcomes by direct employment efforts such as job hunting and job training of young adults. The study used data provided by the Korean Education and Employment Panel, a longitudinal [...] Read more.
The current study explores the moderation of the relationship between obesity and labor market outcomes by direct employment efforts such as job hunting and job training of young adults. The study used data provided by the Korean Education and Employment Panel, a longitudinal data survey comprising middle and high school students from 2004 to 2015. Two dependent variables were assessed in this study: employment status and wage. The individual-level fixed effects were controlled. Despite having more direct employment efforts of either or both experience in job hunting and job training, compared to normal-weight counterparts, underweight men and overweight and obese women were reported to have a disadvantage in both dependent variables. Underweight men with job training experience were 12.02% less likely to be employed, while overweight and obese men had 6.80 times higher monthly wages when job training experience was accompanied compared to no such experience. For overweight and obese women, compared to that of their normal-weight counterparts, employment probability decreased by 4.78% per week-increase in job hunting, by 2.81% if any experience in job hunting. For underweight women, compared to that of their normal-weight counterparts, employment probability increased by 4.56 times per week-increase in job hunting and by 5.59 times if experience in job hunting, and by 6.96% if experience in job training. The results indicate that employment efforts do not fully moderate the presence of obesity penalty for labor market outcomes on those early in their careers. Full article
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