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- Title
Labour Force Status and Sexual Orientation.
- Authors
LEPPEL, KAREN
- Abstract
This study explores the probabilities of being employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force, for men and women in same-sex couples and married and unmarried opposite-sex couples. Same-sex partners were more likely to be unemployed than married opposite-sex partners but less likely than unmarried opposite-sex partners. Laws prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination had positive and larger effects on unemployment for same-sex partners than for other partners. The presence of young children increased the probability of being out of the labour force more for male same-sex partners than for other men, and less for female same-sex partners than for other women.
- Subjects
SEXUAL orientation -- Social aspects; LABOR supply; EMPLOYMENT of LGBTQ+ people; EMPLOYMENT of married people; UNEMPLOYMENT; STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
Economica, 2009, Vol 76, Issue 301, p197
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00676.x