TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamermesh,Daniel S.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative? 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - June 2012; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic change when all agents acquire more of it--become taller or better-looking. Confronted with a choice among individuals, decision-makers respond more to absolute than to relative differences among them.  Also, an increase in the mean of a characteristic's distribution does not alter market responses to differences in it
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w18123
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18123
ER  -