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ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION RATES: A COMPARISON ACROSS FIVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Author(s) -
VAN DER GAAG NICOLE,
VAN WISSEN LEO
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00454.x
Subject(s) - internal migration , economics , per capita , variables , business cycle , per capita income , demographic economics , econometrics , variable (mathematics) , economic geography , macroeconomics , developing country , economic growth , demography , statistics , mathematics , population , sociology , mathematical analysis
This paper addresses the issue of the relationship between internal migration rates at NUTS 2 level and economic developments. For five European countries, several hypotheses were tested on three groups of economic variables: general business cycle indicators, financial variables as well as variables reflecting more structural labour market developments. The empirical analysis is based on first differences of all variables. Although some support was found for all of the hypotheses tested but one, the main conclusion is that there is a stable relationship between GDP per capita and internal migration that is highly similar across countries.