Winners and Losers Among Skilled Migrants: The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK

25 Pages Posted: 18 May 2015

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Pawel Kaczmarczyk

University of Warsaw; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Joanna Tyrowicz

National Bank of Poland; University of Warsaw

Abstract

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants, utilizing the data from the UK and Polish labor force surveys. We find that while overall the returns to migration are low, they are negligible or even insignificant for the highly skilled migrants from Poland to the UK. These results hold for both absolute and relative measures.

Keywords: mobility of the highly educated, return to human capital, relative deprivation, Propensity Score Matching

JEL Classification: J24, J31, J61

Suggested Citation

Kaczmarczyk, Pawel and Tyrowicz, Joanna, Winners and Losers Among Skilled Migrants: The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK. IZA Discussion Paper No. 9057, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2606910 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2606910

Pawel Kaczmarczyk (Contact Author)

University of Warsaw ( email )

Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28
Warszawa, Pl-00681
Poland

IZA Institute of Labor Economics ( email )

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

Joanna Tyrowicz

National Bank of Poland

00-919 Warsaw
Poland

University of Warsaw ( email )

Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28
Warszawa, Pl-00681
Poland

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