When a photo accompanies a job application (as is common in
Argentina), attractive job seekers of both sexes get called back 36%
more often than unattractive ones, a study finds. (click below to read more)
Three
economists in Buenos Aires used what they described as objective
measures of beauty: facial proportions that other studies have suggested
are universally fetching. The researchers created composite photos of
people in their 20s, then adjusted the ratios to make them more
attractive or less.
During two months in 2010, the
researchers sent out 2,500 applications, with the résumés of the job
candidates carefully made similar. Of the attractive fictional
candidates, 10.3% were called, compared with 7.6% of the unattractive
ones.
"The Labor-Market Return to an Attractive Face:
Evidence From a Field Experiment," Florencia López Bóo, Martín A. Rossi,
and Sergio Urzúa, Institute for the Study of Labor Discussion Paper
(February)
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