Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employeremployee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential becomes...

Eine Untersuchung der Verdienststruktur ist insbesondere unter dem Gesichtspunkt ihrer Wirkung auf die Arbeitsplatzsituation in den Wirtschaftszweigen interessant. Dominik Loitz stellt hier mittels deskriptiver Analyse der Verdienststruktur eine hohe Stabilität und geringe Variabilität fest....

Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential...