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Gaining weight may influence earning power
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:25 PM EST
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Piling on the pounds is not only bad for health it can have a negative impact on earning power.
Just a 10 percent increase in body mass index, a measure of weight relative to height, can cut a man's real earnings by 3.3 percent and a woman's by 1.8 percent, economists said on Wednesday.
Research from nine European countries shows the negative impact of weight on wages is stronger in the "oil belt" nations which include Spain, Greece, Italy and Portugal.
But in the so-called "beer belt" countries of Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium and Finland gaining weight does not have a significant effect on salary.
"We find that BMI affects wages negatively in Europe, and that the size of this effect is larger for males than for females," said Giorgio Brunello, an economist at the University of Padova in Italy.
But he does not know whether it is due to discrimination against the overweight and obese or to health problems or depression that may limit their productivity.
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This stufy was in Europe so I don't know how/if it translates to the US. And maybe it is different in a social services business, like a restaurant.
In physics I am more inclined to recruit an executive who looks a little soft, even though I am not. Why? If he isn't working out, he is probably working. So in that sense being overweight has a positive impact on their earnings. For developers, AEs, etc. it makes no difference.
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#1 - Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:29 PM EST{"commentId":494994,"authorDomain":"chill888"}
no doubt there is a direct correlation between earnings and ..... HEIGHT, LOOKS, WEIGHT etc.
the height correlation has been shown many times.
Luckily you and I are tall, thin, studs
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