359
Views
34
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Effects of physical attributes on the wages of males and females

Pages 731-735 | Published online: 07 Oct 2010

References

  • Card , D. and Krueger , A. B. 1992 . School quality and blackwhite relative earnings: a direct assessment . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 107 : 151 – 200 .
  • Frieze , I. H. , Olson , J. E. and Good , D. C. 1990 . Perceived and actual discrimination in the salaries of male and female managers . Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 20 : 46 – 67 .
  • Frieze , I. H. , Olson , J. E. and Russell , J. 1991 . Attractiveness and income for men and women in management . Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 21 : 1039 – 1057 .
  • Hamermesh , D. and Biddle , J. 1994 . Beauty and the labour market . American Economic Review , 84 : 1174 – 1194 .
  • Harris , M. B. , Harris , R. J. and Bochner , S. 1982 . Fat, four-eye, and female: stereotypes of obesity, glasses and gender . Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 12 : 503 – 516 .
  • Hatfield , E. and Sprecher , S. 1986 . Mirror, mirror…The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life , Albany, NY : State University of New York Press .
  • Heilaman , M. E. and Stopeck , M. H. 1985 . Attractiveness and corporate success: differential causal attributions for males and females . Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 70 : 379 – 388 .
  • Juhn , C. , Murphy , K. M. and Pierce , B. 1993 . Wage inequality and the rise in returns to skill . Journal of Political Economy , 100 : 410 – 442 .
  • Mitra , A. 1999 . Structural characteristics of firms and industries and black-white wage inequality in the U.S. economy: 1988 . Atlantic Economic Journal , 27 : 179 – 192 .
  • Mitra , A. 1999 . The allocation of blacks in large firms and establishments and black-white wage inequality . Sociological Inquiry , 69 : 382 – 403 .
  • Mitra , A. 2000 . Cognitive skills and black-white wages in the U.S. labour market . Journal of Socio-Economies , 29 : 389 – 401 .
  • Murnane , R. J. , Willett , J. B. and Levy , F. 1995 . The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination . Review of Economics and Statistics , 77 : 251 – 266 .
  • Neal , D. and Johnson , W. 1996 . The role of premarket factors in black-white wage differences . Journal of Political Economy , 5 : 869 – 895 .
  • O'Neill , J. 1990 . The role of human capital in earnings differentials between black and white men . Journal of Economic Perspectives , 4 : 25 – 45 .
  • Ross , J. and Ferris , K. R. 1981 . Interpersonal attraction and organizational outcomes: A field examination . Administrative Science Quarterly , 26 : 617 – 632 .
  • Smith , J. P. and Welch , F. 1989 . Black economic progress after Myrdal . Journal of Economic Literature , 27 : 519 – 564 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.