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The catalan premium: language and employment in Catalonia

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorRendón, Silvio
dc.date.accessioned2006-11-09T11:23:40Z
dc.date.available2006-11-09T11:23:40Z
dc.date.issued2003-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper measures the contribution of knowing Catalan to finding a job in Catalonia. In the early eighties a drastic language policy change (normalització) promoted the learning and use of Catalan and managed to reverse the falling trend of its relative use versus Castilian (Spanish), thereby recovering its economic value. Using census data for 1991 and 1996, I estimate a significant positive Catalan premium: the probability of being employed increases between 3 and 5 percentage points if individuals know how to read and speak Catalan; it increases between 1 and 4 percentage points for writing Catalan. This premium is substantially higher for women than for men, and decreasing in schooling and in age.
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe033410
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/291
dc.language.isoeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working Paper. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries2003-10
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.titleThe catalan premium: language and employment in Catalonia
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