The economic consequences of same-sex marriage

Generali

https://neo.ubs.com/shared/d1TwuiRZoyrJgd?off_id=AC201507E37100634W161883903&camp_id=EM:UNKW:2015-07:16:U

A five minute video from UBS on the economic impact of same sex marriage.

PasturesNew

I can't watch videos, got no speakers.
Can you type it up

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't watch videos, got no speakers.
Can you type it up

Yes I can.

Will I? No.

The gist is that if some places allow gay marriage and others don't then there will be a LGBT brain drain from places that don't like a bit of girl on girl action to places that are happy for people to declare their love for each other as long as they are adults.

If you have better workers you all get richer.

remorseless

hmmm maybe I need to watch it again to make the message sink better...
is he saying that it is economically better to have same sex marriage recognised to make the economy thrive?

I thought (at least in EU) that marriages as a whole were in decline anyway with some countries dropping like 25% compared to the previous decade.

gazter

remorseless wrote: »

hmmm maybe I need to watch it again to make the message sink better...
is he saying that it is economically better to have same sex marriage recognised to make the economy thrive?

I thought (at least in EU) that marriages as a whole were in decline anyway with some countries dropping like 25% compared to the previous decade.

Its just junk economics twisted to suit the prejudices of the author. Be in favour of gay marriage or not, but these spurious claims are really, just that, spurious.

lessonlearned

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't watch videos, got no speakers.
Can you type it up

If you can access the link, then there is a link on the right hand side which is a report in text form which goes into detail.

PasturesNew

lessonlearned wrote: »

If you can access the link, then there is a link on the right hand side which is a report in text form which goes into detail.

I can't read, can you phone me up and read it out to me?


Actually.... I'm not really interested in [a] gay marriage the economic benefits as written down by somebody who was paid to write a random article about it.

I just open some threads that Generali starts (not the difficult ones you understand)...

Mistermeaner

Is there any evidence that gay married couples make better workers than ungay or unmarried or single workers?

Suppose they don't do selfish things like having kids. But I think kids make you work harder (unless you michaels) because they cost lots.

Sapphire

ggb1979 wrote: »

Suppose they don't do selfish things like having kids. But I think kids make you work harder (unless you michaels) because they cost lots.

However, I think those who don't have the time-consuming distraction of kids are more productive because they can focus much more on their work.

padington

More you make it attractive for good workers to come to your city, more good workers you get at your city and because a proportion of good workers are gay, better for your city to be gay friendly.

Just like it's better for your city to be straight friendly or soft drug friendly or BDSM friendly or sex worker friendly or tech start up friendly or culture friendly or just be a pretty liberal city generally.