Sexual prejudice and labor market outcomes of gays and lesbians i Abstract This paper presents results from a study of sexual prejudice and the labor market gap due to sexual orientation. We use data from a nationwide Swedish survey on public attitudes towards homosexuals and combine them with register data. In line with our theoretical prediction, we find that the relative employment and relat...

Firms are more productive in larger cities. This paper investigates a potential explanation that was first proposed by Adam Smith: Larger cities facilitate greater division of labor within firms. Using a dataset of Brazilian firms, I first document that division of labor is indeed robustly correlated with city size, controlling for firm size. I propose a theoretical model in which this relation...