Arbeitspapier
Does emigration benefit the stayers? Evidence from EU enlargement
Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant positive effect on the wages of stayers. A one percentage-point increase in the emigration rate predicts a 0.67% increase in real wages. This effect, however, is only statistically significant for men.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6843
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Thema
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emigration
labor mobility
EU enlargement
EU-Erweiterung
Internationale Wanderung
Wohlfahrtsanalyse
Großbritannien
Irland
Litauen
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Elsner, Benjamin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Elsner, Benjamin
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2012