Why Do Exporters and Multinational Firms Pay Higher Wages?:Evidence from Japanese Linked Employer–Employee Data

Ayumu Tanaka

Discussion papers from Graduate School of Economics , Kyoto University

Abstract: This study investigates the reasons why exporters, multinational enterprises (MNEs), and foreign-owned rms pay higher wages, using Japanese linked employer{employee data. It jointly examines the premiums for exporters, domestically owned MNEs, and foreign-owned rms and shows that observable plant and worker characteristics as well as region and industry xed e ects can account for almost all wage premiums of local exporters and domestically owned MNEs, whereas they cannot fully account for the wage premium for foreign rms. The results from quantile regressions reveal that the residual foreign wage premium is larger in the higher quantiles of the wage distribution.

Keywords: wage premium; quantile regression; exporter; multinational enterprises; foreign-owned fiems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2018-03
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