The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages

Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini and Anna Rosso

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 117, issue 2, 522-564

Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the effect of emigration from Poland on Polish wages. Focusing on the 1998–2007 period for Poland, we use a unique dataset that contains information about household members who are currently living abroad, which allows us to develop region-specific emigration rates and to estimate the effect of emigration on wages using within-region variation. Our findings show that emigration led to a slight increase in wages for high- and medium-skilled workers, which are the two groups with the largest relative outmigration rates. Workers at the low end of the skill distribution might have experienced wage decreases.

Date: 2015
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