Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128953 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 419
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
We offer an empirical, econometric analysis of the impact of migration on the EU 27's NUTS-2 regions in the period 2000-2007. While our results indicate that migration had no statistical impact on regional unemployment in the EU it had a significant impact on both per-capita GDP and productivity. The coefficients suggest that a 1 percent increase in immigration to immigration regions increased per-capita GDP by about 0.02 percent and productivity by about 0.03 percent. For emigration regions a 1 percent increase in the emigration rate leads to a reduction of 0.03 percent in per-capita GDP and 0.02 percent in productivity. Since immigration regions are also often regions with above-average GDP and productivity while emigration regions in Europe practically all have below-average GDP, migration seems to induce divergence rather than convergence.
Subjects: 
Migration
Convergence
Unemployment
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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