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Resource typeWorking Paper
Title(s)Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from German linked employer-employee data
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1212
Handle20.500.14123/1275
CreatorSchank, Thorsten
Schnabel, Claus
Wagner, Joachim  0000-0001-6058-4536  129798215
AbstractMany plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential becomes smaller but does not completely vanish when observable and unobservable characteristics of the employees and of the work place are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60 percent earn about 1.8 (0.9) percent more than similar employees in otherwise identical non-exporting plants.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsExport; Wage; Germany; Export; Lohn; Deutschland; Arbeitgeber; Arbeitnehmer
Year of publication in PubData2006
Publishing typeFirst publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2006-06-23
Creation contextResearch
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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