Sexual Orientation Discrimination: An International by Lee Badgett, Jeff Frank

By Lee Badgett, Jeff Frank

Having lately authored probably the most major books, funds, Myths and alter, during this intriguing region of economics, Lee Badgett has now teamed up with Jeff Frank and a suite of foreign individuals to supply an research of sexual orientation discrimination on a global scale. Discrimination in keeping with sexual orientation keeps to gasoline collective motion, coverage debates and educational scrutiny in lots of international locations. For a while, sociologists and psychologists have studied sexual orientation discrimination in associations and explored prejudices opposed to lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender humans in mainstream parts. Now economists have additionally started to envision the reviews of lesbians, homosexual males and bisexuals in much less conventional examine sectors together with the labour, housing, credits, and retail markets. This publication contains sections on: wages and jobs discrimination throughout institutional contexts discrimination in cultural associations together with faith, schooling and recreation addressing discrimination via public regulations. cutting edge and updated this publication is an important learn for postgraduate scholars learning within the components of political financial system, gender stories and feminist economics.

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The potential for conflict between gay workers and those with antigay attitudes call to mind models of productivitydetracting workplace conflict that results in poorer treatment for the less favored group of gay workers. The early evidence of discrimination and discriminatory motives from non-economic studies should – at the very least – make economists curious. V. Lee Badgett Looking for differences in economic outcomes A new direction in research on discrimination against LGB people has developed over the last decade as economists have analyzed existing data for differences in economic outcomes that might be related to sexual orientation.

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Rubenstein (2002) collected data on complaints from nine states with such laws and from the District of Columbia. The actual numbers of complaints seemed small, as in Connecticut in 1995, where only 25 people filed complaints alleging sexual orientation discrimination. But Rubenstein argues that the raw numbers are misleading, and he shows that the ratios of sexual orientation Discrimination based on sexual orientation 25 complaints to the likely state LGB population were comparable to ratios for sex or race discrimination complaints.

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