 Sexual Orientation and Wage Discrimination in France: The Hidden Side of the RainbowThierry Laurent and
Ferhat Mihoubi
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: This article is the first study to present an econometric evaluation of wage discrimination based on sexual orientation in the French labor market. Having identified same-sex couples using the French Employment Survey, we estimate the wage gap related to sexual orientation in the private and public sectors, in order to analyze whether or not lesbians and gays suffer a wage penalty. The results obtained show the existence of a wage penalty for homosexual male workers, as compared with their heterosexual counterparts, in both the private and public sectors; the magnitude of this discrimination varies from about -6.5 % in the private sector, to -5.5 % in the public sector. In the private sector, the wage penalty suffered by gay employees is higher for skilled workers than for the unskilled, and-in both sectors-the wage penalty is higher for older workers than for younger ones. As with many other countries, we do not find any evidence of the existence of a wage discrimination against lesbians. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Keywords: Gay & lesbians; Sexual orientation; Wage discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, pp.487--527. ⟨10.1007/s12122-012-9145-x⟩ 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-02877972 DOI: 10.1007/s12122-012-9145-x Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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