Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008
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. -- Exports ; wages …