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

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...

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Year of publication:	2008-02-01
Authors:	Schank, Thorsten ; Schnabel, Claus ; Wagner, Joachim
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Export \| export \| Lohn

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Extent:	256000 bytes 26 p. application/pdf
Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3359 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D21 - Firm Behavior ; F10 - Trade. General ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; Pay salaries and social benefits ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Germany. General Resources
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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