TY - RPRT AU - Baert, Stijn AU - Decuypere, Lynn TI - Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions PY - 2013/Dec/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 7847 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7847 AB - In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed by emotional stability, are important drivers of recruiters' decisions. KW - hiring discrimination KW - economics of personality KW - economics of beauty KW - lab experiments ER -