Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus
Subtitle: first evidence from linked employer-employee data
By: by Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner.
Contributors: Schnabel, Claus, 1961-.; Wagner, Joachim.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1185; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1185
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Exports.; Wages.
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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