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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition, or returns to skills?

Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition, or returns to skills?

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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition, or returns to skills?

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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition, or returns to skills?

Publisher

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Journal title

Journal of labor economics, 2016-10, Vol.34 (4), p.945-978

Language

English

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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

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Contents

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Exploiting the 1992 devaluation of the lira, we show that exporting firms both pay a wage premium above what their workers would earn in the outside labor market (the “rent-sharing” effect) and employ workers whose skills command a higher price af...

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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition, or returns to skills?

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1825888661

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1825888661

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ISSN

0734-306X

E-ISSN

1537-5307

DOI

10.1086/686275

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