An Empirical Analysis of Homosexual/Heterosexual Male Earnings Differentials: Unmarried and Unequal?

By Sylvia A. Allegretto, M. Arthur. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring (2003, background): “Allegretto and Arthur (2001) analyze gay and heterosexual men's earnings on the basis of the PUMS 5% census data and observe a wage difference of -16% comparing gay and heterosexual married men, and a wage differential of -2% comparing gay and heterosexual unmarried men.2 While the new findings on…”
Sexual orientation and household decision making. (2008, background): “…and lesbian workers exhibit an opposite earnings differential with respect to their heterosexual counterparts, lesbians earning significantly more than heterosexual women, and gay men earning significantly less than heterosexual men (Allegretto and Arthur, 2001, Black et al., 2003, Jepsen, 2007).”
Detecting Discrimination against Homosexuals: Evidence from a Field Experiment on the Internet (2009, background): “In the United States, Badgett (1995), Klawitter and Flatt (1998) and Allegretto and Arthur (2001) have studied earnings differentials between homo- and heterosexuals and found that homosexual males earn less than their male heterosexual counterparts, while homosexual females earn about the same, or…”
New Evidence on Gay and Lesbian Household Incomes (2004, unknown): “Allegretto and Arthur (2001) also use the SSUP approach and document a gay male wage gap in earnings relative to married men. They also exploit unmarried heterosexual men in cohabiting relationships as a comparison sample to more precisely identify the independent effect of marital status, which the”
Sexual orientation discrimination in the labour market (2009, methodology): “Allegretto and Arthur (2001) used data from the 1990 Census on men and found a smaller gay male earnings penalty on the order of 3%.”