Language and (the estimates of) the gender wage gap

Lucas van der Velde, Joanna Tyrowicz and Joanna Siwinska-Gorzelak

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 136, issue C, 165-170

Abstract: In this paper we link the estimates of the gender wage gap with the gender sensitivity of the language spoken in a given country. We find that nations with more gender neutral languages tend to be characterized by lower estimates of GWG. The results are robust to a number of sensitivity checks.

Keywords: Gender wage gap; Language neutrality; Meta-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 J7 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.014

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