Abstract:Using the World Bank’s firm-level data of 2004 from its questionnaire, we adopt the propensity score matching method to examine the effect of firms’ export behavior on workers’ wages in China conditioned on controlling the endogenous problem between export and wage.We find that exporting not only increases the average wages of workers significantly, but also enhances the wages of both temporary and permanent workers. This conclusion is robust when we control different regions and matching methods, and the result also shows the firms’ ownership matters in determining the export premium. This paper’s conclusion is different from the present literatures in China, which means that further research should be done for this issue.