PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Carpenter, Christopher S.
AU  - Dujeancourt, Erwan
AU  - Mann, Samuel
AU  - Naldi, Lucia
TI  - Sexual Orientation and Multiple Job Holding
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0324-13477R1
DP  - 2025 May 09
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0324-13477R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/05/05/jhr.0324-13477R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/05/05/jhr.0324-13477R1.full
AB  - We use Swedish administrative data from 2001-2021 to study sexual orientation and multiple job holding. We identify over 19,000 employed individuals who ever entered a legal same-sex union and compare their outcomes with all employed individuals who were only ever in different-sex unions. We find that sexual minority individuals are significantly more likely than otherwise similar heterosexual individuals to hold multiple jobs. We explore four mechanisms: financial constraints, self-insurance, career mobility, and job heterogeneity. We find evidence in line with self-insurance mechanisms for sexual minority men. For women, we find that career mobility is a likely explanation.