Facial Attractiveness, Beauty Premium and

This paper will examine the relationship between individuals’ attractiveness, occupational sector choice and earnings separated by gender. It will try to estimate if such dependence exists for a large sample of data from Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. It is based on a paper by John Scholz and Kamil Sicinski (2011). The article discusses the effect of facial attractiveness of man earnings controlling for various background characteristics. As the beauty premium unarguably exists, this paper takes the research one step further and strives to estimates if beauty premium is observed in both public and private sectors. Due to number of differences in the structure, efficiency and the way of functioning of government institutions and private businesses the effect may by different or none existing in either of the sectors. That is from great scientific interest because it might help to explain why beauty premium is observed.