Exporters and wage inequality during the Great Recession—Evidence from Germany

Wolfgang Dauth, Hans-Joerg Schmerer () and Erwin Winkler

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 136, issue C, 137-140

Abstract: We show that the exporter wage premium decreased at the dawn of the Great Recession and stagnated afterwards. Our decomposition suggests that the decline of the premium explains 24%–43% of the decrease in residual wage inequality between 2007 and 2008.

Keywords: Exporter wage premium; Wage-inequality; Great Recession; International trade; Matched employer–employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517651500350X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Exporters and Wage Inequality during the Great Recession - Evidence from Germany (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:136:y:2015:i:c:p:137-140

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.035

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().