Arbeitspapier
Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both?: first evidence from German employer-employee data
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 74
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Firm Behavior: Theory
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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Exportindustrie
Lohnniveau
Produktivität
Deutschland
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schank, Thorsten
Schnabel, Claus
Wagner, Joachim
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (where)
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Lüneburg
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Schank, Thorsten
- Schnabel, Claus
- Wagner, Joachim
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2008
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