Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: evidence from KombiFiD data

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Average wage and qualification of the workforce in a firm: West Germany, manufacturing industries, 2006

Independent variable		Estimation method: OLS Dependent variable: Average wage (Euro)
Independent variable		Model 1	Model 2
Share of highly qualified employees (Percent)	β	682.15	560.29
Share of highly qualified employees (Percent)	p	0.000	0.000
Share of medium qualified employees (Percent)	β	119.36	82.04
Share of medium qualified employees (Percent)	p	0.000	0.000
Firm size (number of employees)	β		0.621
Firm size (number of employees)	P		0.000
Firm size (squared)	β		−4.17e–6
Firm size (squared)	p		0.003
4digit industry dummy variables		Not included	Included
Constant	β	21,832.53	5,426.15
Constant	P	0.000	0.281
Number of enterprises	4,588	4,588
R ²	0.293	0.468

Note: For a definition of the variables see text. β is the estimated regression coefficient, p is the prob-value. A robust estimator of variance was used