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wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their … discrimination and occupational sorting play a minimal role at best. Wage penalties, on the other hand, are largely explained by … discrimination. Interestingly, while we do find there are some differences in the relative roles of our three alternative …
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of anti-discrimination policies and rising overall tolerance by Americans is concerning. …
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To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers … data align well with the idea of a concentrated discrimination account, whereby a minority of employers who privately hold … negative attitudes towards homosexual individuals are responsible for most instances of hiring discrimination. …
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We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while cohabiting heterosexuals save more than their married counterparts. In a household savings model,...
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It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting men earn more than men not living with a female partner. This study uses data from the General...
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Since the landmark ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2004, the legalization of same-sex marriage (SSM) has proliferated throughout the United States via either legislative action or court order. Advocates of SSM laws argue that marriage equality will generate important health...
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non-discrimination protection for transgender people. We also show that respondents severely underestimate the population … workplace-related views toward transgender people and help us better understand employment discrimination against them. …
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This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
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set out a model explaining why differences in discrimination at the stage of invitation for interviews can arise when … recruiters display identical discriminatory attitudes in both sectors. The estimation of this model shows that discrimination at … the invitation stage is a poor predictor of discrimination at the hiring stage. This suggests that many correspondence …
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the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discrimination). Group identity is induced on subjects … combat favoritism/discrimination. This result also identifies one potential micro-foundation of societal unrest that may link …
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