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Homosexuality and participation in the labour force : evidence from Chile and Uruguay

Seminario para optar al título de Ingeniero Comercial, Mención Economía / In this paper we examine the e ect of sexual orientation on labour
supply in two countries in Latin America. Using census data, a sample
of partnered individuals and a logit model we found that this e ect is
signi cant and depends on the individual's gender. While gay men are
up to 8.1% less likely to participate in the workforce compared to married
straight men, lesbians have a higher probability to participate in the
labour force compared to their unmarried and married straight counterparts,
varying from 17.3% up to 29.9% respectively. Trends between Chile
and Uruguay are similar but the magnitude of the e ect on participation
di ers signi cantly between countries.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/137582
Date January 2016
CreatorsBrown Orrego, Camila Muriel, 1993-, Schmidt Rivera, Luis Eduardo, 1993-
ContributorsContreras Guajardo, Dante,1965-, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Escuela de Economía y Administración
PublisherUniversidad de Chile
Source SetsUniversidad de Chile
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeTesis
RightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/

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