Beauty and the Labor Market: Accounting for the additional effects of personality and grooming

Labour

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 228-251

  Robins, Philip K ^a   Homer, Jenny F ^a   French, Michael T ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; SAVINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 79956218103     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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