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| Title: | | Physical attractiveness, employment, and earnings  |
| Authors: | | Pfeifer, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5664 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | attractiveness beauty employment wages |
| JEL: | | J31 J71 J10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201105172996 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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