ABSTRACT: 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 … firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to …

Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the …