Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank; Claus Schnabel; Joachim Wagner

doi:10.1142/9789813109698_0005

Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank
, Claus Schnabel
, Joachim Wagner

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Abstract

Many 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Microeconometrics of International Trade
Editors	Joachim Wagner
Number of pages	37
Publisher	World Scientific Publishing Co.
Publication date	01.07.2016
Pages	177-213
ISBN (Print)	9789813109681
ISBN (Electronic)	9789813109698, 978-981-3109-70-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813109698_0005
Publication status	Published - 01.07.2016

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Research areas and keywords

exporter wage premium
Exports
Germany
linked employer- employee data
wages
Economics

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Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data. / Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim.
Microeconometrics of International Trade. ed. / Joachim Wagner. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2016. p. 177-213 (World Scientific Studies in international Economics; Vol. 52).

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Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

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