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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

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...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data

Winters, John V. - 2015

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress … racial and ethnic differences in male earnings from 1950 through 2010 using data from the decennial census and American … Community Surveys. Emphasis is given to annual rather than weekly or hourly earnings. Treatment of imputed earnings greatly …

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Does Private Schooling Increase Adult Earnings? Cohort-Level Evidence for U.S. States

Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016

various years to examine the relationship between cohort-level private schooling rates and later earnings during adulthood. We … attainment. We find a significant positive relationship between private schooling rates and adult earnings for women but a small …

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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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