‘Tall and lithe’–The wage-height premium in the Victorian and Edwardian British railway industry

Studies in anthropometrics continue to find a wage-height premium in modern economies despite most productivity not contingent on physical strength. These authors argue that height is a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive abilities, which earns the positive return. In this paper, I collected data...

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Main Author: Anderson, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/65434/