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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

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  • Christian Pfeifer

    () (Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany)

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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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Paper provided by University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics in its series Working Paper Series in Economics with number 201.

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Length: 20 pages
Date of creation: Apr 2011
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Handle: RePEc:lue:wpaper:201

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Keywords: Attractiveness; Beauty; Employment; Wages;

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