Do Exporters Pay Higher Wages? Plant-level Evidence from an Export Refund Policy in Chile

Do Exporters Pay Higher Wages? Plant-level Evidence from an Export Refund Policy in Chile

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 Chile in 1...

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Main Author: Kandilov, Ivan T.
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
book value
consumers
devaluation
econometric models
economics
elasticity
export
export subsidy
exports
free trade
GDP
growth rate
international trade
inventory
rents
sunk costs
trade liberalization
value added
wage differentials
wages
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4503

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4503

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