Exports and Within-Plant Wage Distributions: Evidence from Mexico
利用1994年底墨西哥比索贬值作为外生冲击，研究出口对制造业工厂内不同百分位工资的影响，发现出口主要提高中高百分位工资，对低端和顶端工资影响不显著。
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.