substantially revised version published as 'Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from linked employer-employee data' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 52-74
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.
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