Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28192 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 74
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
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

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