TY - UNPB

T1 - Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both?

T2 - first evidence from German linked emlpoyer-emlpoyee data

AU - Schank, Thorsten

AU - Schnabel, Claus

AU - Wagner, Joachim

N1 - Literaturverz. S. 11 - 12

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities.

AB - While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities.

KW - Economics

KW - exporter wage premium

KW - wages

KW - exports

KW - Germany

KW - exports

KW - wages

KW - exporter wage premium

KW - Germany

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working paper series in economics

BT - Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both?

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -