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Interregional Migration of Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Evidence from Italian Provinces

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  • Basile Roberto

    (University of L’Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy)

  • Mantuano Marianna

    (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy)

  • Girardi Alessandro

    (Parliamentary Budget Office, Canberra, Australia)

  • Russo Giuseppe

    (University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy)

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s interregional migration flows in Italy have dramatically increased, especially from the South to the North. These flows are characterized by a strong component of human capital, involving a large number of workers with secondary and tertiary education. Using longitudinal data for the period 2002-2011 at NUTS-3 territorial level, we document that long-distance (i.e., South-North) net migration of high-skill workers has increased the unemployment at origin and decreased it at destination, thus deepening North-South unemployment disparities. On the other hand, long-distance net migration of low-skill workers has had the opposite effect, by lowering the unemployment at origin and raising it at destination. Further evidence also suggests that the diverging effect of high-skill migration dominates the converging effect of lowskill migration. Thus, concerns for an ‘internal brain drain’ from Southern regions look not groundless.

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  • Basile Roberto & Mantuano Marianna & Girardi Alessandro & Russo Giuseppe, 2019. "Interregional Migration of Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Evidence from Italian Provinces," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 20(4), pages 385-414, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:germec:v:20:y:2019:i:4:p:e385-e414
    DOI: 10.1111/geer.12172
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    Cited by:

    1. Roberto Antonietti & Chiara Burlina, 2019. "From variety to economic complexity: empirical evidence from Italian regions," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1930, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Oct 2019.
    2. Calcagnini, Giorgio & Marin, Giovanni & Perugini, Francesco, 2021. "Labour flexibility, internal migration and productivity in Italian regions," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 308-320.
    3. Dzienis Anna Maria, 2019. "Modern interregional migration: evidence from Japan and Poland," International Journal of Management and Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of World Economy, vol. 55(1), pages 66-80, March.

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