(University of Alberta Press, 2014) Mueller, Richard E.
This paper utilizes five cycles of the General Social Survey in consecutive years from 2006 through
2010 to address the issue of differential wages amongst members of same-sex couples compared
to their counterparts in different-sex couples. We find that men in gay couples have wages that are
statistically indistinguishable from those of males in heterosexual relationships. By contrast, a sizeable
and statistically significant earnings premium exists for lesbians in same-sex couples