Meaning of pulchronomics | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of the economics related to beauty.

neologism, uncountable

Examples

“Lookism is a growing area of research interest in economics, termed “pulchronomics”: focus being given to the need to disentangle the confounding variable of levels of productivity from pay penalty and pay premium measures.”

“The laws of ‘pulchronomics’ also apply to women, Attractive workers may attract more customers, so perhaps they should be paid more. Hamermesh argues that those who are unattractive should have legal protection.”

“The purpose of this paper is to research CEO pulchronomics by examining whether a beauty premium exists in CEO compensation and whether this beauty premium is justified by differences in CEO performance.”

CEFR level