The impact of increased export activity on plant wages is estimated in a developing country context. To avoid potential endogenous selection problems, the empirical analysis benefits from exogenous variation in exports induced by a policy experiment—an export subsidy system implemented in...

This paper uses a new set of index numbers derived from Aw and Roberts (1989) and formalized in Tello (1997) by which changes in the current value of exports (or imports) can be decomposed into three components: a price change component, a quantity change component, and a product composition...