respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among …

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … der Maquiladora-Industrie in Mexiko (Kapitel 4), dem Zusammenspiel von Migration und Handel und deren Auswirkungen auf die …

experiencing net immigration, while lagging regions experience higher speeds of income convergence. As a result, migration …Using a spatial systems estimator to incorporate spatial interactions and endogeneity of income levels and migration …, this paper finds a positive effect of migration on cohesion within the European Union on the NUTS 2 level. As migration can …