TY - RPRT AU - Ours, Jan C. van TI - A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away PY - 2002/Apr/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 473 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp473 AB - This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. KW - smoking KW - drinking KW - earnings regressions KW - wages ER -