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Title: The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: This paper analyses the effect of emigration from Poland around the time of EU accession on the Polish labour market. We develop a simple model that guides our empirical specification and provides a clear interpretation for our estimates. Focussing on the 1998 2007 period for Poland, we use a unique data set that contains information about household members who are currently living abroad, which allows us to develop region-specific emigration rates and estimate emigrations effect on wages using within-region variation. Our results show that emigration from Poland was largest for workers with intermediate-level skills and that it is wages for this skill group that increased most. We also show that emigration led to a slight increase in wages overall but that workers at the low end of the skill distribution made no gains and may actually have experienced slight wage decreases.

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Authors: Frattini, Tommaso; Dustmann, Christian; Rosso, Anna

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Publication Number: 29/12

Institution: University College London

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Publisher Location: London, UK

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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