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A Fresh Look at the Labor Market Height Premium in Germany

I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to analyze the relationship between height and wages in a sample of young German workers. My results show that the crude height wage premium documented in the literature is explained by unobserved heterogeneity on the sibling level. This contradicts the findings of a labor market height premium in Germany using OLS and Hausman-Taylor estimators as well as the Swedish finding of a height effect remaining after controlling for sibling fixed effects. 

09. September 2016

Authors Frieder Kropfhäußer

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Keywords

labour market German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

JEL Classification

I10 J30

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