Unpacking the Beauty Premium: What Channels Does it Operate Through, and Has it Changed Over Time?
Unpacking the Beauty Premium: What Channels Does it Operate Through, and Has it Changed Over Time?
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10.1111/1475-4932.12091
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2014-03
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J. Borland;A. Leigh
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作者：
J. Borland;A. Leigh
使用1984年和2009年澳大利亚人口代表性样本的数据，我们对美丽的经济回报进行了两个主要贡献。首先，我们扩大了对劳动力市场以外的美丽的影响的分析，以检查其与家庭收入的关系。我们发现，美丽显着影响家庭总收入-通过受访者的就业概率和他们的工作时间和小时工资，以及他们是否有一个合作伙伴谁贡献收入的家庭。其次，我们研究了澳大利亚的美丽回报在20世纪80年代至21世纪初是否发生了变化。人们发现，在大多数情况下，美的影响在这一时期是恒定的。然而，有一些证据表明，女性受访者被雇用的可能性越来越大，我们认为这可能是由于选择效应和女性劳动力参与率的增长。
Using data from representative samples of the Australian population in 1984 and 2009, we make two main contributions to analysis of the economic returns of beauty. First, we broaden analysis of the effects of beauty beyond the labour market to examine its relation to household income. We find that beauty significantly affects total household income – via respondents' probability of employment and their hours of work and hourly wage, and whether they have a partner who contributes income to the household. Second, we examine whether the returns to beauty in Australia changed between the 1980s and 2000s. It is found that, for the most part, the effect of beauty was constant across this period. There is, however, some evidence of an increasing effect of beauty on the likelihood that a female respondent is employed, which we suggest may be due to selection effects and the growth in female workforce participation.