Gay men earn 12 percent less than their heterosexual counterparts while lesbians earn 15 percent more than their straight peers, according to a study in the November issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics — the first of its kind.
"No one’s really looked at Canada, which is surprising given that Canada has a longer history of gay rights than the US," says the paper’s author Christopher Carpenter, of the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California Irvine.
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