Table 4
Marginal Effects of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes. Immigrants Only Sample.
	Ln Wages		Working		Work Limitations		Professional/Managerial
VARIABLES	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
Overweight	−0.127	−0.164	0.042	−0.021	0.123***	−0.020	−0.110*	−0.118*
	(0.112)	(0.117)	(0.044)	(0.041)	(0.045)	(0.048)	(0.061)	(0.061)
Obese	−0.141	−0.175	0.049	−0.001	0.184***	0.116**	−0.174*	−0.161*
	(0.137)	(0.116)	(0.051)	(0.055)	(0.057)	(0.057)	(0.089)	(0.083)
Duration in UK	0.010**	−0.005	0.000	−0.001	0.000	−0.001	0.003	−0.003
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.002)	(0.002)
East/Asia	0.267**	−0.118	0.006	0.014	0.073	−0.044	−0.046	−0.007
	(0.126)	(0.184)	(0.064)	(0.070)	(0.064)	(0.072)	(0.075)	(0.083)
India/Pakistan	−0.329	0.023	−0.125**	−0.142***	0.189***	0.100*	−0.262***	0.162
	(0.218)	(0.178)	(0.053)	(0.053)	(0.061)	(0.054)	(0.093)	(0.110)
Africa/S. America	−0.010	0.091	0.040	−0.097**	0.094	−0.138*	0.038	−0.024
	(0.150)	(0.138)	(0.051)	(0.047)	(0.064)	(0.078)	(0.073)	(0.073)
No education	−0.449***	−0.559***	−0.218***	−0.225***	0.060	0.106**	−0.488***	−0.486***
	(0.155)	(0.181)	(0.041)	(0.045)	(0.047)	(0.051)	(0.119)	(0.104)
HS/vocational	−0.445***	−0.353***	−0.103**	−0.073	−0.019	0.072	−0.268***	−0.302***
	(0.118)	(0.118)	(0.042)	(0.046)	(0.055)	(0.054)	(0.060)	(0.055)
Smoker	−0.089	−0.177	−0.012	−0.051	0.145***	0.046	−0.191**	−0.200***
	(0.150)	(0.111)	(0.046)	(0.035)	(0.052)	(0.045)	(0.077)	(0.060)
Drinker	−0.919***	0.005		0.099		0.307*		0.452
	(0.180)	(0.161)		(0.092)		(0.159)		(0.318)
Age	0.103**	0.107***	0.037***	0.035***	0.004	−0.015**	0.025*	0.043***
	(0.040)	(0.020)	(0.010)	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.014)	(0.012)
Age squared	−0.001***	−0.001***	−0.001***	−0.000***	0.000	0.000***	−0.000	−0.000***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Married	0.225*	0.001	0.017	0.076	−0.019	0.067	0.098	−0.128*
	(0.123)	(0.136)	(0.041)	(0.055)	(0.044)	(0.054)	(0.060)	(0.077)
Number of children	−0.428***	−0.004	−0.082***	−0.015	−0.048*	−0.012	−0.069**	0.004
	(0.066)	(0.072)	(0.018)	(0.023)	(0.025)	(0.027)	(0.033)	(0.034)
Year 2006	0.061	0.157	0.050	−0.025	−0.072*	−0.035	0.130**	0.046
	(0.102)	(0.106)	(0.037)	(0.035)	(0.041)	(0.042)	(0.058)	(0.058)
Constant	5.425***	5.441***
	(0.806)	(0.423)
Observations	259	237	487	349	487	349	258	237
R-squared	0.279	0.172

Robust standard errors in parentheses. Work limits, and professional/managerial are logit models with marginal effects reported.

*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. Drinker was dropped due to collinearity in small samples for women in the logit models.

Averett et al. IZA Journal of Migration 2012 1:2   doi:10.1186/2193-9039-1-2