%0 Report
        %A Schank, Thorsten
%A Schnabel, Claus
%A Wagner, Joachim
        %T Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1185
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1185
        %X 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.
        %K exports
%K linked employer-employee data
%K wages
%K exporter wage premia
%K Germany