The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis
This study assesses the effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy at the NUTS-3 level over the period 2002-2019. The composition of the internal migration flows of the working-age population in Italy during the sample period appears substantially heterogeneous in nationality and labor...
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This study assesses the effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy at the NUTS-3 level over the period 2002-2019. The composition of the internal migration flows of the working-age population in Italy during the sample period appears substantially heterogeneous in nationality and labor skills. The analysis considers this heterogeneity, estimating various specifications of the dynamic spatial model and controlling for the endogeneity of migration variables through a control function approach. e evidence suggests that the internal migration of Italian citizens has a positive direct and spillover impact on regional growth, slowing down the convergence process. On the contrary, there is no evidence of a significant effect of internal migration of foreign citizens. Taking the skill composition of internal movements of Italian citizens into account, the adverse impact on convergence is magnified, thus corroborating the skill-selective hypothesis. Finally, the diverging impact of internal migration increases with the distance of migration flows.
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| spelling | doaj-art-12705728db1f48c3bfe26c75ea63348d2025-08-20T01:51:13ZengAECRInvestigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research1695-72532340-27172024-10-0110.38191/iirr-jorr.24.035The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysisFrancesca CentofantiRoberto Basile0Francesca LicariJacopo PitariUniversità dell'Aquila This study assesses the effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy at the NUTS-3 level over the period 2002-2019. The composition of the internal migration flows of the working-age population in Italy during the sample period appears substantially heterogeneous in nationality and labor skills. The analysis considers this heterogeneity, estimating various specifications of the dynamic spatial model and controlling for the endogeneity of migration variables through a control function approach. e evidence suggests that the internal migration of Italian citizens has a positive direct and spillover impact on regional growth, slowing down the convergence process. On the contrary, there is no evidence of a significant effect of internal migration of foreign citizens. Taking the skill composition of internal movements of Italian citizens into account, the adverse impact on convergence is magnified, thus corroborating the skill-selective hypothesis. Finally, the diverging impact of internal migration increases with the distance of migration flows. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/article/view/101388Regional growthconvergencemigrationspatial dynamic models |
| spellingShingle | Francesca Centofanti Roberto Basile Francesca Licari Jacopo Pitari The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research Regional growth convergence migration spatial dynamic models |
| title | The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis |
| title_full | The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis |
| title_fullStr | The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis |
| title_short | The effect of internal migration on regional growth in Italy: a dynamic spatial panel data analysis |
| title_sort | effect of internal migration on regional growth in italy a dynamic spatial panel data analysis |
| topic | Regional growth convergence migration spatial dynamic models |
| url | https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/article/view/101388 |
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