 Sexual Orientation, Unemployment and Participation: Are Gays Less Employable than Straights?Thierry Laurent and
Ferhat Mihoubi
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: This paper is the first attempt to assess, in a unified econometric framework, the existence and the magnitude of both the sexual orientation participation gap and the sexual orientation unemployment gap. Having identified male same-sex couples using the Employment Survey, we use a bivariate probit selection model where the labor supply and the employment equation are jointly estimated for the French labor market. The results show that both participation and employment probabilities are significantly lower for gay employees compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Further investigations indicate that young gay workers, particularly, are more exposed to the unemployment risk than older ones. The beginning of a professional career and the subsequent entry to the labor market appear to be difficult steps to overcome for gay workers who spend more time than their heterosexual counterparts to find the good job. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Keywords: Employment discrimination; Queer economics; Sexual orientation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, pp.1-44. ⟨10.1007/s12122-016-9237-0⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02877957 DOI: 10.1007/s12122-016-9237-0 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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