where obese men are 13 percentage point less likely to work than similar men that are not obese. A new health indicator in social surveys is the maximum grip strength of an individual. As is clear from the results, the indicator is quite important in most of the countries in the analysis. All else equal, the higher an individuals grip strength, the more he is likely to participate to the labour market. In Austria, for example, an increase of one standard deviation in grip strength, implies a higher probability of working of about 10 percentage point. For Swedish men, the impact is economically less important, with a marginal e⁄ect of about 4 percentage point.