Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition, or Returns to Skills?

Mario Macis and Fabiano Schivardi

Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, vol. 34, issue 4, 945 - 978

Abstract: We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Exploiting the 1992 devaluation of the lira, we show that exporting firms both pay a wage premium above what their workers would earn in the outside labor market (the “rent-sharing” effect) and employ workers whose skills command a higher price after the devaluation (the “skill composition” effect). The latter only emerges once we allow for the value of workers’ skills to differ in the pre- and post-devaluation periods. We also document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience.

Date: 2016
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Working Paper: Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills? (2012)
Working Paper: Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills? (2012)
Working Paper: Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills? (2012)
Working Paper: Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills? (2012)
Working Paper: Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills? (2012)
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