Measuring the Wage Costs of Limited English
Issues With Using Interviewer Versus Self-Reports in Determining Latino Wages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6064801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darrick Hamilton (0000-0003-2080-0403, Milano-The New School for Management and Urban Policy), Arthur H Goldsmith (0000-0003-2622-7783, Washington and Lee University), William Darity (0000-0003-1358-9101, Duke University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 257-279 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0739986308320470 |
| OpenAlex | W1999515028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 22 |
Scholars have found that poor English proficiency is negatively associated with wages using self-reported measures. However, these estimates may suffer from misclassification bias. Interviewer ratings are likely to more accurately proxy employer assessment of worker language ability. Using self-reported and interviewer ratings from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, the authors estimate the impact of English proficiency on wages for men ( n = 267) and women ( n = 178) with Mexican ancestry residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Use of interviewer proficiency ratings suggests a larger and more gradational language penalty as fluency falls, and women face a stronger penalty than their male counterparts. Moreover, controlling for worker accent and skin shade does little to alter these effects
Demographic economics · Economics · Fluency · Interview · Labour economics · Language proficiency · Limited English proficiency · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Metropolitan area · Sociology · Statistics · Wage · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |