Beauty and the Labor Market

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The Disability Employment Puzzle: A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior (2018, unknown): “This finding is consistent with earlier work on beauty in the labor market (e.g., Hamermesh and Biddle 1994).”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “A few study focus on favoritism toward attractive people, known as the beauty premium (Hamermesh and Biddle, 1994), through a collaborative game.”
The Faces of Success: Beauty and Ugliness Premiums in e-Commerce Platforms (2020, background): “Similar to the beauty and ugliness premiums in earnings found by studies of labor market (e.g., Biddle and Hamermesh 1994; Kanazawa and Still 2018), our results indicate that one’s attractiveness level has a tremendous effect on sales performance in C2C e-commerce platforms.”
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, unknown): “pearance: Overview of the empirical literature Let us now review the empirical literature on the relationship between being homosexual or having a specific physical appearance and labor-market outcomes.3”
Judging Borrowers by the Company They Keep: Friendship Networks and Information Asymmetry in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending (2013, unknown): “Both papers focus on facial attributes such as race and “beauty” of the borrowers, addressing the literature on racial bias and the beauty premium (Hamermesh and Biddle, 1994; Mobius and Rosenblat, 2005).”