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

Kandilov, Ivan T.

dc.creator	Kandilov, Ivan T.
dc.date	2012-03-30T07:12:38Z
dc.date	2012-03-30T07:12:38Z
dc.date	2009-06-30
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-18T19:41:33Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-18T19:41:33Z
dc.identifier	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier	1564-698X
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4503
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249988
dc.description	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 1986. Analyses using data from a panel survey of Chilean manufacturing establishments show that while the export subsidy had only a modest positive impact on the industrywide relative high-skilled wage, it significantly increased the plant-level relative high-skilled wage in medium-size establishments, which are most likely to take advantage of the subsidy and enter the export market.
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	book value
dc.subject	consumers
dc.subject	devaluation
dc.subject	econometric models
dc.subject	economics
dc.subject	elasticity
dc.subject	export
dc.subject	export subsidy
dc.subject	exports
dc.subject	free trade
dc.subject	GDP
dc.subject	growth rate
dc.subject	international trade
dc.subject	inventory
dc.subject	rents
dc.subject	sunk costs
dc.subject	trade liberalization
dc.subject	value added
dc.subject	wage differentials
dc.subject	wages
dc.title	Do Exporters Pay Higher Wages? Plant-level Evidence from an Export Refund Policy in Chile
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.coverage	Latin America & Caribbean
dc.coverage	Chile