Previous work has documented that speaking one's native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is …, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers' speech in Germany, a country … associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent …

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After … premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …

discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …