Publication: Is there a quality-upgrading wage premium?
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Hernández Martínez, Pedro Jesús
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Emerald Publishing : Asociación Libre de Economía (ALdE)
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© 2016 El autor. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This document is the Published Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Revista de Economía Aplicada.
Abstract
This paper analyses the existence of a quality-upgrading wage premium at
the firm level and its connection with the exporting wage premium. Producing
a higher quality product increases the likelihood of exporting and can
activate a learning-by-exporting mechanism. In turn, higher quality products
require employing more-skilled labour, thereby leading to higher wages.
Using a methodology similar to that proposed by Schank et al. (2010), I test
whether firms that increase their product quality pay higher wages (the learning-
by-quality-upgrading hypothesis) or, conversely, if firms with higher
productivity, as proxied by their higher wages, are more likely to increase
the quality of their output (self-selection hypothesis).
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Citation
Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2016, Vol. 24, N. 71, pp. 69-92.
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