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Is there a Gender Bias in the Use of Foreign Languages in E urope?
Author(s) -
Ginsburgh Victor,
PrietoRodriguez Juan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/kykl.12035
Subject(s) - wage , globalization , foreign language , demographic economics , distribution (mathematics) , economics , psychology , linguistics , labour economics , market economy , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis
Summary The process of globalization has forced workers (essentially white collars) to learn foreign languages and break linguistic barriers. In most cases, E uropeans have chosen E nglish as a second language. But E nglish is not the only language that has an economic impact on international trade. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the most important foreign languages used at the workplace on wages of men and women, both at the mean and along the wage distribution, in N orthern and S outhern E urope ( D enmark, F inland, F rance, G ermany, I taly and S pain). Workers from both genders benefit from a premium, but there are marked differences between N orth E uropean and S outh E uropean countries.