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Title: Marriage (In)equality: Does the Sexual Orientation Wage Gap Persist Across Marital Status?

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Since the first empirical paper on the topic more than two decades ago (Bad- gett, 1995), the common story in the literature on wages and sexual orien- tation has been that gay men face a wage penalty compared to heterosexual men while lesbians are paid the same as or more than heterosexual women. However, none of the papers in the literature have thoroughly addressed the role of marital status in these wage gaps. Using data from the 2013-2015 American Community Survey and OLS as well as selection-corrected estima- tors, we show that the gay male penalty exists only for the group of married men, while the lesbian wage premium persists across marital status but is smaller for married lesbians.

Url: http://epub.wu.ac.at/5964/1/wp254.pdf

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Authors: Schneebaum, Alyssa; Schubert, Nina

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Publication Number: 254

Institution: Vienna University of Economics and Business

Pages: 24

Publisher Location: Vienna

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States