Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries?
This paper studies the labour market returns to physical attractiveness using data from three transition countries of the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. I estimate a large positive effect of attractive looks on males’ probability of employment. Results from the most comprehensive model s...
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| author | Mavisakalyan, Astghik |
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| description | This paper studies the labour market returns to physical attractiveness using data from three transition countries of the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. I estimate a large positive effect of attractive looks on males’ probability of employment. Results from the most comprehensive model suggest a marginal effect of 11.1 percentage points. Using a partial identification approach, I show that this relationship is likely to be causal. After accounting for covariates, particularly measures of human capital, there is no evidence for a statistically significant link between females’ attractiveness and employment. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-621352024-05-22T09:06:40Z Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? Mavisakalyan, Astghik This paper studies the labour market returns to physical attractiveness using data from three transition countries of the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. I estimate a large positive effect of attractive looks on males’ probability of employment. Results from the most comprehensive model suggest a marginal effect of 11.1 percentage points. Using a partial identification approach, I show that this relationship is likely to be causal. After accounting for covariates, particularly measures of human capital, there is no evidence for a statistically significant link between females’ attractiveness and employment. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62135 10.1016/j.ehb.2017.10.002 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Mavisakalyan, Astghik Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| title | Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| title_full | Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| title_fullStr | Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| title_short | Do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| title_sort | do employers reward physical attractiveness in transition countries? |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62135 |