TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schank, Thorsten
AU  - Schnabel, Claus
AU  - Wagner, Joachim
        TI  - Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
        PY  - 2004/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1185
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1185
        AB  - 18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries
document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from
the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one
of the stylized facts found in the emerging literature on the microeconometrics of international
trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany
to demonstrate that these premia vanish when individual characteristics of the employees
and of the work place are controlled for.
        KW  - exports
KW  - linked employer-employee data
KW  - wages
KW  - exporter wage premia
KW  - Germany
        ER  -