Language and (the Estimates of) the Gender Wage Gap

Karolina Goraus-Tańska, Joanna Siwinska-Gorzelak, Joanna Tyrowicz and Lucas van der Velde

No 2014-21, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

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: C29 J31 J71 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2014
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