Human capital and wages in exporting firms

Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.02.006

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“…Schank et al (2007) find that the exporting wage premium almost vanishes when worker characteristics are controlled for. Munch and Skaksen (2008) find that the level of firms' export intensity is not significant when an interaction between this and firm skill intensity is included. They conclude that the export premium only accrues to firms with high human capital.…”

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“…Still, the exporter wage premium remains unchanged. Using data for Denmark, Munch and Skaksen (2008) have argued that the export premium is only significant for firms with high skill intensity. They show this by including an interaction term between average education in the firm and export intensity.…”

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“…When including an interaction term with firm's human capital, the coefficient on the export status remains almost unchanged whereas the interaction term coefficient is almost zero and insignificant. On the issue of how the exporter premium relates to individual characteristics, Schank et al (2007) find that the premium is larger for blue-collar than for whitecollar employees, whereas Munch and Skaksen (2008) find no monotone relationship between the premium and education. 1 In this paper we find that all output-market wage premia in Spain are monotonically increasing in education (as well as the establishment's human capital wage premium).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Schank et al (2007) and Munch and Skaksen (2008) use matched plant-worker data for Germany and Denmark, respectively, and find a significant positive wage effect of firm export intensity, even after controlling for worker education. In this paper we extend this evidence using Spanish matched data for more than 15,000 establishments and 150,000 employees from the Encuesta de Estructura Salarial (Survey on the Wage Structure).…”

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The literature on the exporter wage premium has focused on an exporter/non-exporter dichotomy. Instead, this paper provides first evidence that there is a more continuous destination-market effect. Using Spanish data, we estimate wage premia for establishments selling to the national, European Union, and rest of the world markets (with respect to wages in local-market establishments). Controlling for worker and establishment characteristics, output-market wage premia are increasing in market remoteness and employee education. Establishment human capital is also increasing in output-market remoteness. The paper builds a theoretical model that provides a potential explanation for these empirical results, which is also consistent with the recent evidence on the positive relationship between output-market remoteness and quality of exports.

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“…Additionally, even if there is a positive effect of working in an exporting firm on well-being and involvement at work, this effect will probably be captured by measures of worker's human capital and compensation since it has been shown that human capital intensity and average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms (e.g., Munch and Skaksen, 2008). Noteworthy, as indicated previously, we included variables measuring education levels, seniority and wage as control variables.…”

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How green is my firm? Workers' attitudes and behaviors towards job in environmentally-related firms

Lanfranchi¹,

Peković²

2014

Ecological Economics

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Abstract. The implementation of environmental standards can be facilitated by motivating workers with pro-social preferences. Therefore, we study if employees working for firms achieving registration for environmental-related standards are more likely to display positive attitudes toward their job, to be actively involved in their jobs and to donate effort. Using a French matched employer-employee database, we find that these "green employees" report a significantly higher perception of usefulness and equitable recognition at work. Besides, they are more likely to work uncompensated overtime hours. Finally, if the adoption of environmental standards is shown to have no direct influence on job involvement, we expose how it indirectly impacts job involvement through the mediation of employees' reported perception of usefulness and equitable recognition at work.

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Foreign Direct Investment, Employment and Wages in Sub‐Saharan Africa

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Prota

Šerić

2015

J of Intl Development

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Job creation is one of the main challenges for developing countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the relation between foreign ownership and employment using an original firm‐level dataset that covers 19 sub‐Saharan African countries. Our results show that although foreign firms are generally larger than local ones, the employment they generate is relatively more unskilled labour intensive compared with that generated by domestic firms. We discover substantial differences between foreign investors from the north and the south, in terms of both skill intensity and wage premiums. We also find that, ceteris paribus, Chinese firms employ more workers (mostly blue‐collar workers) and pay lower wages for both skilled and unskilled workers compared with both domestic firms and other foreign investors. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Human capital and wages in exporting firms

Cited by 140 publications

References 34 publications

Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages

Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages

How green is my firm? Workers' attitudes and behaviors towards job in environmentally-related firms

Foreign Direct Investment, Employment and Wages in Sub‐Saharan Africa

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