Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57158 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 201
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
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
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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