The Exporter Wage Premium Hypothesis: An Unconditional Quantile Regression and Decomposition Approach

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dc.contributor.authorAckah, C.G.
dc.contributor.authorBofah, R.O.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-24T11:13:12Z
dc.date.available2024-05-24T11:13:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractRelying on the World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset in 2012/13, this paper applies the unconditional quantile regression and decomposi tion estimation techniques to examine the hypothesis that workers in exporting firms receive higher wages than those in non-exporting firms. The results show that the relationship between export and firm’s wage bill is indirect and is transmitted through technology and firm size. Remarkably, these indirect relationships are much more pronounced at the more upper quantiles of the wage bill distribution. However, the net relationships of the interaction between export and technology are relatively larger and positive as compared to that of the interaction between export and firm size which are marginal and mixed. The decomposition analysis indicates that much of the pre sent exporter wage premiums are largely due to the differences in the returns to the characteristics between exporting and non exporting firms. The findings from this paper suggest directions for future work that can be directly useful for policy.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCharles Godfred Ackah & Richard Osei Bofah (2019) The Exporter Wage Premium Hypothesis: An Unconditional Quantile Regression and Decomposition Approach, Journal of African Business, 20:3, 376-391, DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2019.1582265en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2019.1582265
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/41916
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of African Businessen_US
dc.subjectExporter wage premiumen_US
dc.subjecttechnologyen_US
dc.subjectfirm sizeen_US
dc.titleThe Exporter Wage Premium Hypothesis: An Unconditional Quantile Regression and Decomposition Approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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