Beauty Pays : : Why Attractive People Are More Successful / / Daniel S. Hamermesh.
Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 6 halftones. 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I: Background to Beauty
- Chapter 1: The Economics of Beauty
- Chapter 2: In the Eye of the Beholder
- Part II: Beauty on the Job: What and Why
- Chapter 3: Beauty and the Worker
- Chapter 4: Beauty in Specific Occupations
- Chapter 5: Beauty and the Employer
- Chapter 6: Lookism or Productive Beauty, and Why?
- Part III: Beauty in Love, Loans, and Law
- Chapter 7: Beauty in Markets for Friends, Family, and Funds
- Chapter 8: Legal Protection for the Ugly
- Part IV: The Future of Looks
- Chapter 9: Prospects for the Looks-Challenged
- Notes
- Index