Worker Exodus on EU’s Fringe Turns After 25 Years on Wage Gains
In Estonia, in 2015 the country experienced the first year since 1991 that immigration exceeded emigration, thus there was a net inflow of people. The stable labor market and wage growth that has happened over the past several years has helped to bring the number of people leaving the country to a standstill. The other two Baltic economies of Latvia and Lithuania have not seen the same wage growth and are still dealing with the problem of high emigration. However, these Baltic countries are now expanding more quickly than the rest of the EU in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
See "Worker Exodus on EU’s Fringe Turns After 25 Years on Wage Gains", Ott Ummelas and Milda Seputyte, Bloomberg, June 6, 2016