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: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 27

Classification
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Theory
Trade: General
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)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
(where)
Nürnberg
(when)
2004

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Wagner, Joachim
  • Schnabel, Claus
  • Schank, Thorsten
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik

Time of origin

  • 2004

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