Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands *

DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR market has generated a vast empirical literature to illustrate various theories on the nature of discrimination. Many of these studies on earnings differentials involve women, blacks, the physically handicapped, the ugly and no doubt other groups too (Altonji and Blank 1999; Baldwin and Johnson 1994; Cain 1986; Hamermesh and Biddle 1994). Yet economists have been silent when it comes to sexual orientation.