| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26719 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26719 |
| The Wage Penalty of Regional Accents | |
| Jeffrey Grogger; Andreas Steinmayr; Joachim Winter | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-02-03 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Previous work has documented that speaking one’s native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers’ speech in Germany, a country with wide variation in regional dialects. We use a variety of strategies in estimation, including an instrumental variables strategy in which the instruments are based on research findings from the linguistics of accent acquisition. All of our estimators show that speaking with a distinctive regional accent reduces wages by an amount that is comparable to the gender wage gap. We also find that workers with distinctive regional accents tend to sort away from occupations that demand high levels of face-to-face contact, consistent with various occupational sorting models. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Discrimination |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26719 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584393 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeffrey Grogger,Andreas Steinmayr,Joachim Winter. The Wage Penalty of Regional Accents. 2020. |
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| w26719.pdf（4219KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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