TY - JOUR
T1 - Beauty and job accessibility
T2 - new evidence from a field experiment
AU - Deng, Weiguang
AU - Li, Dayang
AU - Zhou, Dong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - This study uses a field experiment to resolve the difficulties of quantifying personal appearance and identify a direct causal relationship between appearance and employment in China. The experiment reveals that taste-based pure appearance discrimination exists at the pre-interview stage. There are significant gender-specific heterogeneous effects of education on appearance discrimination: having better educational credentials reduces appearance discrimination among men but not among women. Moreover, attributes of the labor market, companies, and vacancies matter. Beauty premiums are larger in big cities with higher concentrations of women and in male-focused research positions. Similarly, the beauty premium is larger for vacancies with higher remuneration.
AB - This study uses a field experiment to resolve the difficulties of quantifying personal appearance and identify a direct causal relationship between appearance and employment in China. The experiment reveals that taste-based pure appearance discrimination exists at the pre-interview stage. There are significant gender-specific heterogeneous effects of education on appearance discrimination: having better educational credentials reduces appearance discrimination among men but not among women. Moreover, attributes of the labor market, companies, and vacancies matter. Beauty premiums are larger in big cities with higher concentrations of women and in male-focused research positions. Similarly, the beauty premium is larger for vacancies with higher remuneration.
KW - Appearance discrimination
KW - Beauty premium
KW - Field experiment
KW - Pre-interview stage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070258395&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00148-019-00744-7
DO - 10.1007/s00148-019-00744-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070258395
SN - 0933-1433
VL - 33
SP - 1303
EP - 1341
JO - Journal of Population Economics
JF - Journal of Population Economics
IS - 4
ER -