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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6843

Klassifikation
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
emigration
labor mobility
EU enlargement
EU-Erweiterung
Internationale Wanderung
Wohlfahrtsanalyse
Großbritannien
Irland
Litauen

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Elsner, Benjamin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Elsner, Benjamin
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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