Is There an LGB Training Gap? Participation of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People in Further Training in Germany

Lisa de Vries , Bielefeld University

The paper contributes to the research on unequal access to further training and labor market inequalities by sexual orientation in examining the participation of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) employees in further training. Using a pooled dataset from seven waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a representative German household panel study, with N = 63,198 heterosexual and N = 1,337 LGB observations, first results show an LGB training gap for men: Gay and bisexual men have a 6 percentage point lower probability of participating in further training than heterosexual men. The results suggest no differences in further training by sexual orientation for women. Nevertheless, first insights into the funding of further training suggest that lesbian and bisexual women participate more often in self-financed training and less often in employer-financed training than heterosexual women.

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 Presented in Session P3. Migration, Economics, Policies, History