Arbeitspapier
International Trade and Collective Bargaining Outcomes: Evidence from German Employer-Employee Data
In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, exportexposure may reduce the exporter wage premium. We test this prediction using linkedGerman employer-employee data from 1996 to 2007. To separate the rent-sharingmechanism from assortative matching, we exploit individual worker information toconstruct profitability measures that are free of skill composition. We find that rentsharingis less pronounced in more export intensive firms or in more open industries.The exporter wage premium is highest for low productivity firms. In line with theory,these findings are unique to the subsample of plants covered by collective bargaining.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 130
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
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Trade
collective bargaining
employer-employee data
Außenwirtschaft
Exportindustrie
Lohnbildung
Tarifpolitik
Schätzung
Deutschland
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Felbermayr, Gabriel J.
Hauptmann, Andreas
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg
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Veröffentlichung
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
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Munich
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Felbermayr, Gabriel J.
- Hauptmann, Andreas
- Schmerer, Hans-Jörg
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Time of origin
- 2012