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| Title: | | Do exporters really pay higher wages?: First evidence from German linked employer-employee data  |
| Authors: | | Schank, Thorsten Schnabel, Claus Wagner, Joachim |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg working paper series in economics 28 |
| Abstract: | | 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 percent earn about 1.8 (0.9) percent more than similar employees in otherwise identical nonexporting plants. |
| JEL: | | F10 D21 L60 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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