What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
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- Nattavudh Powdthavee & Mark Wooden, 2014. "What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom," CEP Discussion Papers dp1267, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
- Nattavudh Powdthavee & Mark Wooden, 2014. "What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us about Discrimination against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2014n09, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
- Powdthavee, Nattavudh & Wooden, Mark, 2014. "What can life satisfaction data tell us about discrimination against sexual minorities? A structural equation model for Australia and the United Kingdom," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60278, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Keywords
sexual orientation; sexual minorities; discrimination; life satisfaction; HILDA Survey; UKHLS;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2014-05-04 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LMA-2014-05-04 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2014-05-04 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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