Do Exporters Pay Higher Wages? Plant-level Evidence from an Export Refund Policy in Chile
利用智利1986年出口退税政策的外生变化，估计出口活动对工厂工资的影响，发现补贴对中型企业的高技能工人相对工资有显著提升作用。
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.