Exporting and labor demand: micro-level evidence from Germany : presented at CESifo-Delphi Conference on "The Economics of Firm Exporting"

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel d...

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Hauptverfasser: Lichter, Andreas 1985- (VerfasserIn), Peichl, Andreas (VerfasserIn), Siegloch, Sebastian (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Munich CESifo 2014
Schriftenreihe:CESifo working paper 4668 : Category 4, Labour markets
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Zusammenfassung:It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel data from 1996 to 2008, we explicitly control for self-selection into exporting and endogeneity concerns. In line with our theoretical model, we find that exporting at both the intensive and extensive margins significantly increases the (absolute value of the) unconditional own-wage labor demand elasticity. This is not only true for the average worker, but also for different skill groups. For the median firm, the elasticity is three-quarters higher when comparing exporting to non-exporting firms.
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