Sexual orientation–based wage gaps in Australia: The potential role of discrimination and personality

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2015-03-01 DOI:10.1177/1035304615570806

Andrea La Nauze

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Abstract

This article reports a research finding that lesbians in Australia earn an unexplained wage premium of 0%–13%, whereas gay men experience an unexplained negative wage gap of 8%–18%. Based on data from the Australian household panel Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia, the article is the first to establish these gaps in Australia, and to examine the degree to which credence can be afforded to claims that endowments such as personality traits may help explain such wage differentials. Using ordinary least squares and Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition methods, the study explicitly includes the battery of Big Five personality traits in wage regressions and estimates the contribution of endowments and returns to these traits. The finding is that personality traits and returns to them do not differ along lines of sexual orientation. Gay men in particular suffer a substantial unexplained wage penalty in the workplace. Such unexplained differences suggest that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, though unlawful, may exist in Australia.

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澳大利亚基于性取向的工资差距:歧视和个性的潜在作用

这篇文章报道了一项研究发现，澳大利亚女同性恋者的工资溢价为0%-13%，原因不明，而男同性恋者的工资差距为8%-18%，原因不明。根据澳大利亚家庭小组“澳大利亚家庭收入和劳动力动态”的数据，这篇文章首次在澳大利亚建立了这些差距，并研究了人格特征等禀赋可能有助于解释这种工资差异的说法在多大程度上可以得到信任。使用普通最小二乘法和Blinder-Oaxaca分解方法，该研究明确地在工资回归中包含了五大人格特征，并估计了禀赋和回报对这些特征的贡献。研究发现，不同的性取向，人的性格特征和回报并没有什么不同。在工作场所，男同性恋者尤其遭受无法解释的工资惩罚。这种无法解释的差异表明，基于性取向的歧视虽然是非法的，但在澳大利亚可能存在。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.