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

Thorsten Schank; Claus Schnabel; Joachim Wagner

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.08.004

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

Thorsten Schank
, Claus Schnabel
, Joachim Wagner

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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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 employeremployee 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 workplace are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60% earn about 1.8 (0.9) % more than similar employees in otherwise identical nonexporting plants.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of International Economics
Volume	72
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	52-74
Number of pages	23
ISSN	0022-1996
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.08.004
Publication status	Published - 05.2007

Research areas and keywords

Economics
Gender and Diversity
Exporter wage premium
Exports
Germany
Linked employer-employee data
Wages

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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Do exporters really pay higher wages? first evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Schank, T., Schnabel, C. & Wagner, J., 06.2006, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 35 p. (Working paper series in economics; no. 28).
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