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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016

- often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from …

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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to show that emigration significantly changed the wage distribution in the … calibration of a structural model of labor demand, I find that over the period of five years emigration increased the wages of … significant effect of emigration on the wage distribution between high-skilled and low-skilled workers. -- emigration ; EU …

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Does emigration benefit the stayers? : evidence from EU enlargement

Elsner, Benjamin - 2012

. 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 …

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Migrant networks and the spread of misinformation

Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013

Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the size of the migrant community, we show that the quality of...

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10 years after : EU enlargement, closed borders, and migration to Germany

Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...

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Immigration and redistribution

Elsner, Benjamin; Concannon, Jeff - 2020

One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...

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