Geographic Concentration and Increasing Returns

Surico, Paolo

doi:10.1046/j.1467-6419.2003.00210.x

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“…Different degrees of industry agglomeration and market potential may therefore influence consumers' and workers' decisions to move. Higher expected real wages in agglomerated areas due to competition among firms, as well as greater diversity, will enhance the pull of agglomerated regions for migrants (Surico 2003, Pekkala 2003. However, different views coexist regarding the effects of industry agglomeration on wages and on the spatial concentration of workers.…”

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Do we follow the money? The drivers of migration across regions in the EU

Rodríguez‐Pose¹,

Ketterer

Castells‐Quintana³

2015

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Abstract. Most immigration theories tend to highlight that migration follows wealth and economic dynamism, but is this also the case across regions in Europe? The aim of the paper is to investigate whether migrants in Europe indeed follow the money, and to contrast this with a variety of potential alternative explanations, including the presence of migrants from a similar origin. The analysis is based on panel data estimations including 133 European regions over a time period of 17 years. Different lag structures have been employed in order to distinguish between short-and longrun effects. The results cast some doubt about the prominence of pecuniary factors as determinants of cross-regional migration in Europe, with little evidence to support the idea that migration follows economic dynamism. Network effects, human capital related-, and territorially embedded innovation enhancing regional characteristics, by contrast, seem to play a much stronger role than hitherto considered.

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