TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Munch, Jakob R.
AU  - Skaksen, Jan Rose
        TI  - Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
        PY  - 2006/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2409
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2409
        AB  - This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Using a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities.
        KW  - matched worker-firm data
KW  - exports
KW  - wages
KW  - human capital
KW  - rent sharing
        ER  -