Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
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Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data. / Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim.
Microeconometrics of International Trade. ed. / Joachim Wagner. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2016. p. 177-213 (World Scientific Studies in international Economics; Vol. 52).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
AU - Schank, Thorsten
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Wagner, Joachim
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
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 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.
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 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.
KW - exporter wage premium
KW - Exports
KW - Germany
KW - linked employer- employee data
KW - wages
KW - Economics
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U2 - 10.1142/9789813109698_0005
DO - 10.1142/9789813109698_0005
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85135641634
SN - 9789813109681
T3 - World Scientific Studies in international Economics
SP - 177
EP - 213
BT - Microeconometrics of International Trade
A2 - Wagner, Joachim
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co.
ER -