Productivity or Discrimination? Beauty and the Exams
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- Giam Pietro Cipriani & Angelo Zago, 2011. "Productivity or Discrimination? Beauty and the Exams," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 73(3), pages 428-447, June.
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Physical appearance; discrimination; productivity.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
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