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Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital / Ciska M. Bosman, Gerard Pfann, Jeff E. Biddle, Daniel S. Hamermesh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bosman, Ciska M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6083.
- NBER working paper series no. w6083
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997.
- Summary:
- We examine whether a difference in pay for beauty is supported by different productivity of people according to looks. Using a sample of advertising firms, we find that those firms with better-looking executives have higher revenues and faster growth than do otherwise identical firms whose executives are not so good-looking. The impact on revenue far exceeds the likely effect of beauty on the executives' wages. This suggests that their beauty creates firm-specific investments, in the form of improved relationships within work groups, the returns to which are shared by the firm and the executive.
- Notes:
- July 1997.
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