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发帖数: 442 | 2 American Economic Review
Vol. 96, No. 1, March 2006
Why Beauty Matters
Markus M. Mobius and Tanya S. Rosenblat
American Economic Review, 96(1): 222–235.
Abstract
We decompose the beauty premium in an experimental labor market where "
employers" determine wages of "workers" who perform a maze-solving task.
This task requires a true skill which we show to be unaffected by physical
attractiveness. We find a sizable beauty premium and can identify three
transmission channels: (a) physically attractive workers are more confident
and higher confidence increases wages; (b) for a given level of confidence,
physically attractive workers are (wrongly) considered more able by
employers; (c) controlling for worker confidence, physically attractive
workers have oral skills (such as communication and social skills) that
raise their wages when they interact with employers. Our methodology can be
adopted to study the sources of discriminatory pay differentials in other
settings.
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: especially labor people :)
: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-14-2011/ugly-peo
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