Migration and Regional Convergence in the European Union European migration trends in the last decade have been marked … the important immigration and the cohesion problem, the question arises whether migration had any effect on unemployment … regions reveal a process of convergence in unemployment and income and whether migration plays a role in this process. We …

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 … Europe practically all have below-average GDP, migration seems to induce divergence rather than convergence …