Arbeitspapier
Sexual orientation, prejudice and segregation
This paper examines whether gay and lesbian workers sort into tolerant occupations. With information on sexual orientation, prejudice and occupational choice taken from Australian Twin Registers, we find that gays and lesbians shy away from prejudiced occupations. We show that our segregation results are largely driven by those gay and lesbian workers with disclosed identities, and robust to the inclusion of unobserved factors that are inherited and observed factors that strongly correlate with productive skills and vocational preferences. Our segregation estimates are generally large and consistent with prejudice based theories of employer and employee discrimination against gay and lesbian workers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5772
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Discrimination
- Subject
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sexual orientation
occupational choice
discrimination
segregation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Plug, Erik
Webbink, Dinand
Martin, Nicholas G.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-20110621319
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Plug, Erik
- Webbink, Dinand
- Martin, Nicholas G.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2011