Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? first evidence from German linked emlpoyer-emlpoyee data
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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? first evidence from German linked emlpoyer-emlpoyee data. / Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim.
Lüneburg : Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2008. (Working paper series in economics; No. 74).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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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 -