Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Research , Preprint , Report 01 Jan 2006 Denmark English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:SSRN Electronic Journal (eissn: 1556-5068,

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Authors: Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose;

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.944473 , 10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.02.006

handle: 10398/7623 , 10398/68009040-c84c-11dd-8e8d-000ea68e967b , 10419/208526 , 10419/33936 , 10419/82042

Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

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This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Using a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities.

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Denmark

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Lohnstruktur, Rent sharing, Matched Worker-Firm Data, wages, Faculty of Social Sciences, matched worker-firm data, Eksportfirmaers lønfastsættelse, Humankapital, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfSocialSciences, Verarbeitendes Gewerbe, F10, Human capital, human capital, J30, exports, Human Capital, ddc:330, Wages, Rent Sharing, rent sharing, sharing, matched worker- firm data, Exports, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfSocialSciences; name=Faculty of Social Sciences, exports; wages; human capital; rent sharing; matched worker- firm data, Export, na, I20, Menneskelig kapital, Bildungsniveau, Matched worker-firm data, Løn, Theorie, jel: jel:I20, jel: jel:F10, jel: jel:G10, jel: jel:J30

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