SSOAR Logo
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • English 
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • Login
SSOAR ▼
  • Home
  • About SSOAR
  • Guidelines
  • Publishing in SSOAR
  • Cooperating with SSOAR
    • Cooperation models
    • Delivery routes and formats
    • Projects
  • Cooperation partners
    • Information about cooperation partners
  • Information
    • Possibilities of taking the Green Road
    • Grant of Licences
    • Download additional information
  • Operational concept
Browse and search Add new document OAI-PMH interface
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Download PDF
Download full text

(225.6Kb)

Citation Suggestion

Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-233501

Exports for your reference manager

Bibtex export
Endnote export

Display Statistics
Share
  • Share via E-Mail E-Mail
  • Share via Facebook Facebook
  • Share via Bluesky Bluesky
  • Share via Reddit reddit
  • Share via Linkedin LinkedIn
  • Share via XING XING

Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? First evidence from linked employer-employee data

Höhere Löhne in exportierenden Unternehmen: Selbstselektion, Exporteffekte oder beides? Erste Erkenntnisse aus deutschen Employer-Employee-Daten
[journal article]

Schank, Thorsten
Schnabel, Claus
Wagner, Joachim

Abstract

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting 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 w... view more

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting 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.... view less


"Während es als stilisiertes Faktum gilt, dass exportierende Firmen höhere Löhne zahlen als nicht exportierende, ist die Richtung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Exportieren und Löhnen weniger klar. Unter Verwendung eines großen verbundenen Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes für Deutschland verfolgen d... view more

"Während es als stilisiertes Faktum gilt, dass exportierende Firmen höhere Löhne zahlen als nicht exportierende, ist die Richtung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Exportieren und Löhnen weniger klar. Unter Verwendung eines großen verbundenen Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes für Deutschland verfolgen die Autoren Betriebe, die anfangen zu exportieren, über die Zeit. Sie zeigen, dass der Exportlohnaufschlag bereits in den Jahren vor Aufnahme der Exporttätigkeit besteht und dass er in den Jahren danach nicht zunimmt. Höhere Löhne in exportierenden Firmen sind somit das Ergebnis einer Selbstselektion von produktiveren und besser zahlenden Firmen in Exportmärkte; sie werden nicht durch Exportaktivitäten verursacht." (Autorenreferat)... view less

Keywords
export; productivity; foreign trade; Federal Republic of Germany; enterprise; development; wage level

Classification
Political Economy

Method
empirical; quantitative empirical

Free Keywords
Exports; Wages; Exporter wage premium; Germany; IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz; F10; D21; J31

Document language
English

Publication Year
2010

Page/Pages
p. 303-322

Journal
Review of World Economics, 146 (2010) 2

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-010-0049-7

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.
 

 


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.
 

 

This website uses cookies. The data policy provides further information, including your rights for opt-out.