Human Capital, Exports, and Wages.

Working paper

This paper tests whether manufacturing exporters pay more to educated workers in an e¤ort to ascertain whether the productivity of human capital is raised by exports. Using a panel of matched employer-employee data from Morocco, we fail to …nd convincing evidence that exporters pay more to educated workers. Although exporters pay more on average, much of the wage di¤erential can be explained by the fact that exporters have a larger workforce and more capital. We also …nd that the wages of educated workers do not increase faster among exporters. Finally, educated workers who start working for an exporter do not experience a larger wage increase relative to their previous job. We discuss why our results di¤er from the literature.

Authors: Fafchamps, M

• Publisher: GPRG
• Series: Working Paper Series
• Publication date: 2007-03-01
• Language: English