Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71699 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7292
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test whether the spatial concentration of skills has increased or decreased over time. We account for neighboring effects associated with both geographic proximity and links through civilian flights using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across member states, particularly at the Southern and Eastern periphery of the European Union. We also find that inter-regional connectivity through civilian flights has much stronger effects on the evolution of a region's skill endowment than geographic contiguity.
Subjects: 
European Union
migration
skill endowments
convergence
spatial connectivity
JEL: 
F20
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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