Regional Migration in Spain: The Effect of Personal Characteristics and of Unemployment, Wage and House Price Differentials Using Pooled Cross‐Sections

Antolín, Pablo; Bover, Olympia

doi:10.1111/1468-0084.00061

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“…Jimeno and Bentolila (1998) point out that migration decisions are poorly sensitive to the unemployment rate and real wages. Antolin and Bover (1997) conclude that the unemployment rate has no significant effect on international migration and show that emigration occurs from regions where wages are higher than the average, which seems to contradict many of the theoretical findings. These conflicting conclusions are not only observed for the case of Spain, since Italian internal migrations do not react to mass unemployment, as Fachin (2007) found, nor to an increase in GDP, as determined by Biagi and Faggian (2011).…”

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Interregional Migration and Thresholds: Evidence from Spain

Clemente

Larramona

Olmos

2016

Spatial Economic Analysis

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of labor market conditions in the origin and the destination on interregional migration in Spain, over the period 1988-2010. A basic theoretical framework is developed and the implications of the model suggest that the effect of labor market conditions on migration can vary, depending on a certain threshold. In a second step, the implications of the model are tested with Spanish data, using a new approach based on the presence of thresholds. We show that interregional migration can be explained by labor market fundamentals if the expected wage gap between the origin and the destination is below an endogenously determinate value.JEL Code: R23, C20, J61

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 59%

Interregional Migration and Thresholds: Evidence from Spain

Clemente

Larramona

Olmos

2016

Spatial Economic Analysis

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“…For Great Britain (Jackman and Savouri 1992; Pissarides and Wadsworth 1989;Hughes and McCormick 1989), Sweden (Westerlund 1998;Harkman 1989), and the Netherlands (Van Djik et al 1989), there is nearly invariable empirical evidence in favour of higher migration rates among the unemployed. However, for Spain (Antolin and Bover 1997) and Finland (Tervo 2000), there are no reports of more frequent migration among the unemployed. These inconsistent results reflect methodological issues (Sandefur and Tuma 1987;Greenwood 1997: 651 et seq.…”

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Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment

Abraham

Auspurg

Bähr

et al. 2013

J Labour Market Res

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Abstract Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals to accept new job offers. Using an experimental factorial survey module (FSM) implemented in the fifth wave of a large population survey (Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security), the willingness of employed and unemployed labour market participants to accept new job offers was compared while considering job characteristics like gain of income or commuting distance. In this study, unemployed and employed individuals received the same set of hypothetical job offers. Consistent with theoretical arguments, the about 20,000 evaluations provided by about 4,000 respondents showed that unemployed participants generally exhibit a greater willingness to accept new job offers than employed ones. Moreover, unemployed individuals were likely to make more concessions than employed individuals with respect to job quality, such as accepting fixed-term job offers. Interestingly, little evidence for different decisionmaking or weightings of mobility costs was found, which enables us to conclude that interregional unemployment disparities can scarcely be explained by unemployed individuals lacking the willingness to work or relocate. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Jimeno and Bentolila have shown that "the responses of migration and participation to rates to labor demand shocks, seem to be significantly slower than in the US states and EU regions" (1998, p. 46). Antolin and Bover (1997) report that "migration does not seem to be working as a mechanism for alleviating the very high levels of unemployment in Spain" (1997, p. 230). They attribute this in part to an individuals' family situation and in part to the unemployment registration system which appears to have a direct negative effect on the probability of migration.…”

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confidence: 99%