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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? The EU Enlargement as a Natural Experiment. Evidence from Lithuania

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  • Benjamin Elsner

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The eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 triggered a large flow of migrant workers from the new member states to the UK and Ireland. This paper analyzes the impact of this migration wave on the real wages in the source countries. I consider the case of Lithuania, which had the highest share of emigrants relative to its workforce among all ten new member states. Using data from the Lithuanian Household Budget Survey and the Irish Census, I find that emigration had a significant positive effect on the wages of men who stayed in the country, but no such effect is visible for women. A percentage point increase in the emigration rate increases the real wage of men on average by 1\%. Several robustness checks confirm this result.

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Paper provided by IIIS in its series The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series with number iiisdp326.

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Length: 39 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2009
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Handle: RePEc:iis:dispap:iiisdp326

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Keywords: Emigration; EU Enlargement; Labor Mobility;

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  1. Emigration & wages
    by chris dillow in Stumbling and Mumbling on 2010-06-08 13:25:06
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  1. Benjamin Elsner, 2011. "Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp379, IIIS.
  2. Christian Dustmann & Tommaso Frattini & Anna Rosso, 2012. "The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages," CReAM Discussion Paper Series 1229, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London.

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