Kim Tae Hyun, Han Euna
a Graduate School of Public Health and Institute of Health Services Research , Yonsei University , Seoul , South Korea.
b College of Pharmacy, Yonsei Institute of Pharmaceutical Science , Yonsei University , Incheon , South Korea.
Biodemography Soc Biol. 2017;63(4):332-346. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2017.1403302.
It has previously been reported that an individual's body mass index (BMI) contemporaneously penalizes wages for women, but has no effect and sometimes rewards wages for men. In young adults, we estimate the association of BMI status with initial wages to assess whether initial BMI at the beginning of an individual's career affects initial and later earnings. We pooled data from 388 men and 305 women, aged 20-40 years, with BMI information for the first year of employment, using the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study. A labor market penalty for a higher BMI among women was found only for overweight or obese segments, particularly those with relatively higher monthly wages. Meanwhile, a higher BMI in underweight or normal weight segments could reward employment probability for women and monthly wages for men. Such rewards of relatively higher monthly wages were also estimated for men in the overweight segment. Our findings suggest discrimination as one factor penalizing higher BMI in the labor market.
此前有报道称，个人的体重指数（BMI）会同时对女性工资产生负面影响，但对男性没有影响，有时甚至会提高男性工资。在年轻人中，我们估计BMI状况与起薪之间的关联，以评估个人职业生涯开始时的初始BMI是否会影响初始收入和后期收入。我们使用韩国劳动和收入面板研究，汇总了388名男性和305名年龄在20至40岁之间的女性的数据，这些数据包含她们就业第一年的BMI信息。仅在超重或肥胖人群中发现了女性BMI较高会受到劳动力市场惩罚的情况，特别是那些月工资相对较高的人。与此同时，体重过轻或正常体重人群中较高的BMI可能会提高女性的就业概率和男性的月工资。超重人群中的男性也估计有相对较高月工资的这种回报。我们的研究结果表明，歧视是劳动力市场中惩罚较高BMI的一个因素。
