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http://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.EAER.2021.25.1.392

Minimum Wages and Firm Exports: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms  

Nguyen, Dong Xuan (Vietnam National University Hanoi (VNU) - University of Economics and Business (UEB))
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East Asian Economic Review / v.25, no.1, 2021 , pp. 99-121 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between the minimum wage and firm's export behavior by using firm-level data of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises over the period 2010 through 2015. In this regard, I apply the logistic regression model for the probability of exporting and the differences-in-differences analysis to the data, and find that raising minimum wage standards drive no new exporters but a rise in a firm's export sales. Less productive and more labor-intensive firms raise their amount of exports in response to increasing minimum wage levels. Being exposed to increasing minimum wage levels makes a firm under-perform in terms of export sales compared to non-exposed firms.
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Wages; Exports; Vietnam;
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