Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
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T1 - Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages?
T2 - First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
AU - Schank, Thorsten
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - 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 employeremployee 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 workplace are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60% earn about 1.8 (0.9) % more than similar employees in otherwise identical nonexporting plants.
AB - 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 employeremployee 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 workplace are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60% earn about 1.8 (0.9) % more than similar employees in otherwise identical nonexporting plants.
KW - Economics
KW - Deutschland
KW - Export
KW - Lohn
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - Exporter wage premium
KW - Exports
KW - Germany
KW - Linked employer-employee data
KW - Wages
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.08.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.08.004
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 72
SP - 52
EP - 74
JO - Journal of International Economics
JF - Journal of International Economics
SN - 0022-1996
IS - 1
ER -