Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67322 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6843
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
emigration
labor mobility
EU enlargement
JEL: 
F22
J61
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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