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Title: Speech and Wages
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Grogger, Jeffrey |
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Speech and Wages Presented: Montreal, Society of Labor Economists World Meeting, June 2015. Also: http://www.sole-jole.org/15431.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Keyword(s): Behavior; Paradata; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Speech is fundamentally human behavior and a topic that has been widely studied. I ask two questions here that have nevertheless received little research attention. The first is whether a worker's speech, in his native language, is related to his wages. The second is whether speech is responsive to economic incentives. To do this I collected audio data, which I transformed and merged to respondents from the NLSY97. The results show that there is a wage premium for mainstream speech that is not explained by education, test scores, family background, or a set of other worker characteristics. The premium is large for workers with more than a high school education and small to non-existent among workers with less schooling. The results suggest that in areas where the mainstream speech premium is higher, at least some speakers are more likely to acquire mainstream speech patterns as children. |
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Grogger, Jeffrey. "Speech and Wages." Presented: Montreal, Society of Labor Economists World Meeting, June 2015. |