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 …

local workers in agriculture. We exploit an 8% tax that was assessed on the wages of foreign workers in 2003. If foreign … tax, and their wages should increase, unless their supply is perfectly elastic. On the other hand, if unskilled workers …, foreign or local, are complements to skilled agricultural workers, the demand of the latter should decline, and their wages …

This paper examines the changes in the wages of different types of workers in different industries during a period in … manufacturing, compared to all other industries. We find that the wages of unskilled workers in agriculture decreased compared to … the other industries, while the wages of skilled workers and other occupations increased. This is consistent with the view …