Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus: First evidence from linked employer-employee data

Joachim Wagner (), Claus Schnabel and Thorsten Schank

No 27, Discussion Papers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics

Abstract: 18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts found in the emerging literature on the microeconometrics of international trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia vanish when individual characteristics of the employees and of the work place are controlled for.

Keywords: Exports; wages; exporter wage premia; linked employer-employee data; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 F10 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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