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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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 16-091/V
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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Dialect-speaking
wage penalty
job characteristics
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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van Ours, Jan C.
Yao, Yuxin
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- van Ours, Jan C.
- Yao, Yuxin
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2016
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