Sexual orientation discrimination in the labour market

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 364-372

  Drydakis, Nick ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^c PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d Scientific Centre for the Study of Discrimination   (Greece)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Hiring discrimination; OLS model; Probit model; Sexual orientation; Wage discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349087460     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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