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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 130

Classification
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
Subject
Trade
collective bargaining
employer-employee data
Außenwirtschaft
Exportindustrie
Lohnbildung
Tarifpolitik
Schätzung
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.
Hauptmann, Andreas
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(where)
Munich
(when)
2012

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  • 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

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