Arbeitspapier

Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts found in the emerging literature on the microeconometrics of international trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia vanish when individual characteristics of the employees and of the work place are controlled for.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1185

Classification
Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Firm Behavior: Theory
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
Subject
exports
wages
exporter wage premia
linked employer-employee data
Germany
Lohnstruktur
Exportindustrie
Aussenhandelswirtschaft
Arbeitskräfte
Qualifikation
Arbeitsplatz
Schätzung
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Wagner, Joachim
Schnabel, Claus
Schank, Thorsten
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2004

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Wagner, Joachim
  • Schnabel, Claus
  • Schank, Thorsten
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2004

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