Daily dialect-speaking and wages among native Dutch speakers
Our paper studies the efects of daily dialect-speaking on hourly wages of native Dutch workers. The unconditional diference in median hourly wage between Standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10% for
Daily dialect-speaking and wages among native Dutch speakers
Our paper studies the efects of daily dialect-speaking on hourly wages of native Dutch workers. The unconditional diference in median hourly wage between Standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10% for males and 8% for females. Taking into account diferences in personal characteristics, family characteristics and geographical diferences, wage diferences are reduced with about 6%-points.
|Keywords||Dialect-speaking · Wage penalty · Job characteristics|
|JEL||Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity (jel J24), Education and Research Institutions (jel I2)|
Yao, Y, & van Ours, J.C. (2018). Daily dialect-speaking and wages among native Dutch speakers. Empirica. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/119672