The article reports (emphasis mine):
> A _new_ study
Yet this study appears to be from 2020. Is this the correct study?
> A _new_ study
Yet this study appears to be from 2020. Is this the correct study?
Previous work has documented that speaking one’s native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers’ speech in Germany, a country with wide variation in regional dialects. We use a variety of strategies in estimation, including an instrumental variables strategy in which the instruments are based on research findings from the linguistics of accent acquisition. All of our estimators show that speaking with a distinctive regional accent reduces wages by an amount that is comparable to the gender wage gap. We also find that workers with distinctive regional accents tend to sort away from occupations that demand high levels of face-to-face contact, consistent with various occupational sorting models.
To be fair, they do make specific mention of (Germanic) "Southern states" which you could imagine that someone at a less reputable news outlet like Fox might gloss over in order to spin some bullshit.
"The Southern states have the highest share of speakers with distinct accent. The interaction term is positive, hinting at a lower penalty for Southern dialects.
(which, if I'm reading correctly, suggests that "Southern accents" actually hurt you less - at least in Germany?)
Also not reviewed but that seems an irrelevant nit compared with "it's talking about an entirely different country".
"[NBER working papers] have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications."