In a CEPR discussion paper, Jan van Ours and Yuxin Yao conclude that in the Netherlands,
for male workers there is a significant wage penalty of dialect-speaking while for female workers there is no significant difference.
Tag Archives: Dialect
Swiss German, Standard German, and Swiss Standard German
In the NZZ am Sonntag, Reto Hunziker argues that the schooling system in the German speaking part of Switzerland undermines students’ ability to speak proper German. Hunziker wants the Swiss to speak either their Swiss German dialect or Standard German—not the Swiss German dialect or Standard-German-As-Spoken-In-Schools-In-Switzerland.
Wikipedia article on High German languages. Wikipedia article on German dialects.