The impact of population on the reduction of steady-state disparities across Spanish regions

Mayoral, Fernando Martín; Garcimartín, Carlos

doi:10.1007/s00168-011-0475-z

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“…Some other studies suggest migration, particularly from poorer areas, could have contributed toward output per capita convergence. Mayoral and Garcimartín () suggest that the deep reduction in steady‐state disparities during the 1955–2008 period across Spanish regions can be largely attributed to the differences in population growth rates (migration flows). Ozgen, Nijkamp, and Poot (2010) review 12 past studies analyzing the effects of migration on growth regressions and find estimates of about 2.7% per year using neoclassical models of long‐run real income convergence.…”

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ASSESSING RETURNS TO EDUCATION AND LABOR SHOCKS IN MEXICAN REGIONS AFTER NAFTA

Mollick¹,

Cabral

2014

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This article examines Mexico's (real) wage movements across its 32 subnational entities for post-North American Free Trade Agreement years. Employing dynamic panel data methods, we obtain the following results. First, education (or labor productivity) has slightly higher wage effects in the Border-North region. Second, allowing for foreign capital and labor to respond to wages, returns to education have higher effects in SouthCenter Mexico, the region with (average) lower education levels. Third, convergence rates become lower with endogenous foreign capital and migration flows: wages move faster in the South-Center region than in Border-North. Overall, migration flows have greater effects on wages than foreign direct investment inflows. (JEL F15, F21, F22, F43, O47)

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