Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from German linked employer-employee data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim
• 署名单位: University of Erlangen Nuremberg; Leuphana University Luneburg
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.08.004
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 52-74
• 关键词: Exports; wages; Exporter wage premium; Linked employer-employee data; Germany

摘要

Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential becomes smaller but does not completely vanish when observable and unobservable characteristics of the employees and of the workplace are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60% earn about 1.8 (0.9) % more than similar employees in otherwise identical non-exporting plants. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.