We analyze the effect of interregional migration on regional unemployment in Italy. With the help of a simple two …-region model adapted to the main features of the Italian NorthSouth dualism, we illustrate the effects of labor mobility with and … document that net outflows of human capital from the South to the North have increased the unemployment rate in the South …

inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states … than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the EU15 member states migration has fallen in candidate countries and new … member states. This casts doubt on the viability of migration as an adjustment mechanism. Estimating place to place models of …

dissipate through adjustment processes such as factor mobility. However, this is ultimately an empirical issue. In this paper we …