In:
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, Vol. 102, No. 3 ( 2012-05-01), p. 435-440
Abstract:
This short paper examines the effect of exporting on within-plant wage distributions in employer-employee data on Mexican manufacturing plants. Using the late-1994 peso devaluation interacted with initial plant size as a source of exogenous variation in exporting and focusing on wages at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles within each plant, we document three patterns: (1) there is no evidence of an effect of exporting on wages at the 10th percentile; (2) the wage effects of exporting are larger at higher percentiles, up to the 75th; and (3) there is no evidence of an increase in dispersion within the top quartile.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0002-8282
DOI:
10.1257/aer.102.3.435
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Economic Association
Publication Date:
2012
detail.hit.zdb_id:
203590-X
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2009979-4
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