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
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5772

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Discrimination
Subject
sexual orientation
occupational choice
discrimination
segregation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Plug, Erik
Webbink, Dinand
Martin, Nicholas G.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20110621319
Last update
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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

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