Exports and Wage Premiums: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Frias, Judith A.; Kaplan, David S.; Verhoogen, Eric; Alfaro-Serrano, David
• 署名单位: Inter-American Development Bank; Columbia University; Cornerstone Research
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01178
• 发表日期: 2024-03
• 页码: 305-321
• 关键词: pay higher wages; earnings inequality; FIRMS; TRADE; workers; Heterogeneity; GLOBALIZATION; distributions; destinations; returns

摘要

This paper draws on employer-employee and longitudinal plant data from Mexico to investigate the impact of exports on wage premiums, defined as wages above what workers would receive elsewhere in the labor market. We decompose plant-level average wages into a component reflecting skill composition and a component reflecting wage premiums. Using the late-1994 peso devaluation interacted with initial export propensity as a source of exogenous changes in exports, we find that exports have a significant positive effect on wage premiums and that the effect on wage premiums accounts for essentially all of the medium-term effect of exporting on plant-average wages.