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| Title: | | Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both?: first evidence from German employer-employee data  |
| Authors: | | Schank, Thorsten Schnabel, Claus Wagner, Joachim |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics 74 |
| Abstract: | | While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities. |
| JEL: | | F10 D21 J31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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