Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to analyze heterogeneity across the wage distribution.

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Year of publication:	2011-04
Authors:	Pfeifer, Christian
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	attractiveness \| beauty \| employment \| wages

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (6), 505-510 Number 5664 17 pages
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J71 - Discrimination ; J10 - Demographic Economics. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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