Oh Keith, you're such an academic. What do you do for fun?:>))
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:39 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; Arthur Cordell Subject: Re: [Futurework] When economy gets bad, women dress to impress To Sarah Hill's question at the end of Carroll's article: <<<< What Hill would like to know - and that may be the subject of a future study - is whether men who do have good jobs will be looking for ways to advertise that fact to women they want to date. "Perhaps if they have a good job in a recession they might do things to advertise that, such as wearing a flashy wristwatch or buying a fancy car." >>>> The answer is no. Single men already buy personal status ornamentation (according to their peer group's culture) as much as they can afford whether in good times or bad. In bad times, the fact that a male has a job is such a plus that he doesn't really need to enhance it with anything more than normal. In good times or bad, any girl meeting an unattached man will soss out within minutes whether he has a job and roughly what his earnings are in order to fill out the details suggested by his clothes and ornamentation. Keith At 16:02 11/07/2012, you wrote: http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/11/12644392-when-economy-ge ts-bad-women-dress-to-impress?lite Putting on makeup to get a man may not be the most feminist concept, but it may also be hard-wired into women's brains. When the economy goes sour, women stock up on products that can enhance their looks, a new study shows. The reason is that women, consciously or not, are seeking to make themselves more attractive to the dwindling supply of men with good jobs, researchers say. ... To see if the so-called lipstick-effect was broader than just one company, Hill and her colleagues examined 20 years of data scrutinizing the relationship between unemployment rates and sales of products that could be used to increase attractiveness, such as cosmetics, perfumes, and designer clothes. "I was expecting to find sales of these products to at best be flat when unemployment was high," she says. "That would have been interesting enough. But when we found that people were actually spending more during times of high unemployment, I thought that was fascinating." See the entire article at <http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv> http://tinyurl.com/ce2eowv Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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