Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Christian Pfeifer ()

No 5664, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: J10 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2011-04
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Published - published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (6), 505-510

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