Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Christian Pfeifer ()

No 201, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Attractiveness; Beauty; Employment; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2011-04
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Journal Article: Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings (2012)
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