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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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 … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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