Sexual Orientation, Prejudice, and Segregation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Plug, Erik; Webbink, Dinand; Martin, Nick
• 署名单位: University of Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Queensland
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/673315
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 123-159
• 关键词: discrimination; personality; earnings; ECONOMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; income

摘要

This article 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 are 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 consistent with prejudice-based theories of employer and employee discrimination against gay and lesbian workers.