Abstract
This note investigates the relationship between the export status of companies and the workers salary, testing whether the export leads to a wage employees of foreign companies or whether exporting companies were already paying a higher salary before starting to export. To achieve that, we consider an identified panel data employer-employee from Brazil for the years 2003 to 2013. The results confirm the existence of a self-selection mechanism, where companies pay higher salaries because they are more productive and, consequently, become able to enter the export market.