Arbeitspapier

The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into account differences in personal characteristics and province fixed effects male dialect speakers earn 4.1% less while for females this is 2.8%. Using the geographic distance to Amsterdam as an instrumental variable to dialect-speaking, we find that male workers who speak a dialect earn 11.6% less while for female workers this is 1.6%. Our main conclusion is that for male workers there is a significant wage penalty of dialect-speaking while for female workers there is no significant difference.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 16-091/V

Classification
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Subject
Dialect-speaking
wage penalty
job characteristics

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
van Ours, Jan C.
Yao, Yuxin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Tinbergen Institute
(where)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • van Ours, Jan C.
  • Yao, Yuxin
  • Tinbergen Institute

Time of origin

  • 2016

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