La prima salarial de las lenguas extranjeras en el mercado de trabajo español

  1. Ginsburgh, Victor 12
  2. Prieto Rodríguez, Juan 3
  1. 1 Université Libre de Bruxelles
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    Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Bruselas, Bélgica

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9htc13

  2. 2 Université Catholique de Louvain
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    Université Catholique de Louvain

    Louvain-la-Neuve, Bélgica

    ROR https://ror.org/02495e989

  3. 3 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Revista:
Cuadernos económicos de ICE

ISSN: 0210-2633

Ano de publicación: 2007

Título do exemplar: Capital humano y empleo

Número: 74

Páxinas: 129-146

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.32796/CICE.2007.74.5920 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Cuadernos económicos de ICE

Resumo

In this paper we evaluate the wage premium obtained by Spanish workers who use any foreign language in their job. To do so we have defined a variable that measures the relative lack among Spanish population of linguistic knowledge used by Spanish workers. The problem of the possible endogeneity of foreign languages knowledge has been treated explicitly by an iterative method of instrumental variables quantile regression that is robust to the presence of weak instruments. This estimation method allows us to analyze the effect of linguistic skills at different parts of the wage distribution using data from the European Union Household Panel (ECHP).