Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique latine
Centre de recherche et de documentation sur les Amériques

Séminaire SEMID

01 avril 2016, 16h00-18h00

SEMID - IHEAL/CREDA

Examining the Export Wage Premium

Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Professor of Economics

(Haute école de gestion de Genève)

Registration at semid@univ-paris3.fr

IHEAL [amphithéâtre, 1er étage], 28 rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

Abstract:  There are arguably potential wage gains from exports in developing countries. Export markets bring about opportunities for firms and successful exporting firms translate some of the benefits of exports to workers via employment and wage premia. Using comparable data for 61 developing and low-income countries, we document the prevalence of the export wage premia worldwide. With an extensive literature review, we identify four major drivers of the wage premia: exporting firms hire more skilled workers, utilize more sophisticated machines, buy higher quality material inputs, and are more productive than non-exporting firms. Our empirical analysis confirms the worldwide prevalence of these mechanisms and, furthermore, establishes a strong link to the estimated wage premia. (co-authors: Irene Brambilla & Guido Porto - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina).

Nicolas Depetris Chauvin is Professor of Economics at the Haute école de gestion de Genève. In the past he was Senior Advisor at the African Center for Economic Transformation, Associate Professor of International Economics at Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Research Fellow at the Oxford Center for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies at the University of Oxford, and visiting professor at Scienes Po among others. Nicolás is an international economist with extensive research and policy analysis experience in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. His area of research is in the intersection of trade and development economics. He has published several articles on agriculture supply chains, food security, resource rich economies, debt relief, emerging market economies, and the economies of the Gulf and Africa. He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

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