Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF) - 2012
We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a large and unforeseen shock to Italian firms’ incentives to export. The results indicate that the...