future economic growth. In contrast, low income and absolute poverty work both as push-factors and as credit constraints, so … that people may want to leave, but few can afford to migrate when poverty is high. We test our hypotheses using new data on … poverty, using a migration gravity model with a spatial specification. Controlling for both source and destination income …

We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of … territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions … regarding the relative standing of a given country with respect to its level of poverty and shows the variability of poverty …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …