Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

No 2409, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Using a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities.

Keywords: matched worker-firm data; exports; wages; human capital; rent sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 I20 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2006-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hrm, nep-int and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Journal of International Economics, 2008, 75 (2), 363-372

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Working Paper: Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms (2009)
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