Arbeitspapier
Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by motherhood. We do not find any unequal treatment at older ages. This age effect is consistent with our theoretical expectation that, relative to lesbian women, young heterosexual women are penalised for getting children more frequently and taking on, on average, more at-home-caring tasks.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7767
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination
- Subject
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labour market discrimination
sexual orientation
motherhood
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Baert, Stijn
- 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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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baert, Stijn
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2013
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