Author(s)

Ning Ding ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Economics, Jiaxing Nanhu University, Yuexiu Road, Jiaxing, China

Corresponding Author

Ning Ding

ABSTRACT

This paper studies the impact of export on firms' wage premium by matching data of China's industrial enterprise database and China's customs data from 2000 to 2015. The research result shows that: export can significantly improve the wage level of enterprise workers, and this result is still significant after changing the export measurement method, removing abnormal sample points and adding more control variables. Further analysis shows that: the premium degree in high-tech industries and state-owned enterprises is relatively higher. Enterprise productivity plays a mediating role in the process of export bringing enterprise wage premium. 

KEYWORDS

Export, Wage premium, Enterprise productivity, The mediation effect

CITE THIS PAPER

Ning Ding, Can Exports Raise Workers' Wages: Mediating Effect Based on Total Factor Productivity. Financial Engineering and Risk Management (2022) Vol. 5: 93-105. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/ferm.2022.050114.

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