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Sexual Orientation and Earnings in Sweden

Sammanfattning
This paper presents a study of earnings differentials between homosexual individuals who are living in civil unions and married heterosexual individuals based on register data from Sweden. The results show that gay men are at an earnings disadvantage as compared to male heterosexuals. This earnings differential amounts to between 10 and 15 per cent. The earnings differential is smaller in metropolitan areas compared to nonmetropolitan areas. Regarding females, the results show that the earnings differential between lesbians and heterosexual women is very small. The existence of different kinds of discrimination as well as the fact that families specialize in market and household labour within households are put forward as plausible explanations for the results.
Universitet
Göteborg University. School of Business, Economics and Law
Institution
Department of Economics
URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/9524
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uppdaterad version sep 08 (112.3Kb)
Datum
2008-02-06
Författare
Ahmed, Ali M.
Hammarstedt, Mats
Nyckelord
Sexual orientation
Labour market
Earnings
Discrimination
JEL: J15, J71
Publikationstyp
report
ISSN
1403-2465
Serie/rapportnr.
Working Papers in Economics
285
Språk
eng
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