case across regions in Europe? The aim of the paper is to investigate whether migrants in Europe indeed follow the money … similar origin. The analysis is based on panel data estimations including 133 European regions over a time period of 17 years … doubt about the prominence of pecuniary factors as a determinant of cross regional migration in Europe, with little evidence …

perspective, that is, analyse regions in a specific country. On the contrary, comparisons of regional features have been carried …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …) 2009. This database provides information on the innovation performance across 194 regions of the European Union and Norway …