Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149192 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10333
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
dialect-speaking
wage penalty
job characteristics
JEL: 
J24
I2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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