TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schank, Thorsten
AU  - Schnabel, Claus
AU  - Wagner, Joachim
        TI  - Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
        PY  - 2008/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3359
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3359
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - exporter wage premium
KW  - wages
KW  - exports
KW  - Germany
        ER  -