职场新研究：成功戒烟带来高工资_职场英语

职场新研究：成功戒烟带来高工资

而另一方面，职场中未戒烟者的情况要更差一些。两名经济学家写道，他们的工资水平相当于不吸烟人群的80%。皮茨说，吸烟会侵蚀你在劳动力市场上的人力资源价值。

Are tobacco users earning less because smoking reduces their productivity? Ms. Hotckiss and Ms. Pitts didn't find evidence for this. The two economists tested the relationship between wages and smoking intensity and found that the frequency at which people smoke doesn't significantly affect their earnings. 'The idea is that if the productivity was affected by smoking, then heavier smokers would have a much larger wage gap. We didn't find support for this hypothesis,' said Ms. Pitts.

未戒烟者的工资水平较低是不是因为吸烟降低了他们的劳动生产率呢?霍奇基斯和皮茨并没有发现相关证据。这两名经济学家测试了工资和吸烟强度的关系，发现吸烟的频度对他们的收入没有显著影响。皮茨说，这里面的逻辑是，如果说吸烟影响生产率，那么吸烟频率高的人的工资差距就应该大一些，不过我们并没有发现支持这一假设的证据。

They determined that differences in the characteristics of smokers and nonsmokers, such as educational attainment, as well as unmeasured factors such as an employer's tolerance to smoking behavior, are mostly driving the wage gap. They noted that education level was the largest contributing variable. Nonsmokers tend to be more educated, are less likely to have spouses who smoke and live in states where cigarette prices are higher than smokers.