The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking

Yuxin Yao () and Jan van Ours
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Yuxin Yao: Tilburg University

No 10333, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: wage penalty; job characteristics; dialect-speaking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Published - published as 'Dialect Speech and Wages' in: Economics Letters, 2019, 177, 35 - 38

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