Does emigration benefit the stayers? Evidence from EU enlargement

被引：41
作者：
Elsner, Benjamin [1 ]
机构：
[1] Inst Study Labor IZA, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
来源：
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS | 2013年 / 26卷 / 02期
关键词：
Emigration; EU enlargement; Labor mobility; MIGRATION; IMPACT; IMMIGRANTS; MEXICO; WAGES;
D O I：
10.1007/s00148-012-0452-6
中图分类号：
C921 [人口统计学];
学科分类号：
摘要：
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.
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