Do exporters really pay higher wages? first evidence from German linked employer-employee data
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Authors
Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential becomes smaller but does not completely vanish when observable and unobservable characteristics of the employees and of the work place are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60 percent earn about 1.8 (0.9) percent more than similar employees in otherwise identical non-exporting plants.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Lüneburg |
| Publisher | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| Publication status | Published - 06.2006 |
Bibliographical note
We thank Mark Roberts and participants at the European Trade Study Group ETSG conference in Nottingham in September 2004 as well as two referees and a co-editor of this journal for extremely helpful comments that guided us in the revision of an earlier version which circulates as IZA Discussion Paper No. 1185 since June 2004. Many thanks also go to Susanne Rässler and Hermann Gartner for helpful discussions and for providing their (unpublished) multiple imputation algorithm, and to Manfred Antoni for technical assistance
- Economics - Exports, Wages, Exporter wage premium, Linked employer-employee data, Germany