Sexual Orientation and Wage Differentials in Brazilian Labour Market
This paper aims to analyze the wage gap according to sexual orientation by making use of the new methodology of family arrangement identification from the Brazilian Census of 2010. No systematic patterns were found on men and women regressions. However, statistically significant differences in favor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Economia Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/ecoa/article/view/124389 |
| Summary: | This paper aims to analyze the wage gap according to sexual orientation by making use of the new methodology of family arrangement identification from the Brazilian Census of 2010. No systematic patterns were found on men and women regressions. However, statistically significant differences in favor of homosexuals were found on both models. It should be mentioned that gay couples earn on average 25.11% more than heterosexual couples, after controlling for occupational and the economic sector. Regarding women, lesbian couples earn on average 13.84% more than their heterosexual counterparts after controlling for the observed characteristics in a sample selection correction model |
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| ISSN: | 1413-8050 1980-5330 |