Migratory flows and human capital mobility

Bernardí Cabrer (), Guadalupe Serrano and Rocío Simarro
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Bernardí Cabrer: Universidad de Valencia
Guadalupe Serrano: Universidad de Valencia
Rocío Simarro: Universidad de Valencia

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2009, issue 16, 5-42

Abstract: This paper focuses on estimating interregional human capital migration flows in Spain, based on the assumption of key hypothesis on data and temporal characteristics of educated population migration flows. The results point to the increasing intensity of medium and high educated gross migration flows and confirm Madrid, the Basque Country and Catalonia as the three main independent poles of attraction and emission for educated migrants. Likewise, there is a reasonable concordance between education levels of immigrants and the needs for educated workers in Spanish regions. However, the average amount of years of study within the active population in the region is increasing while that of the immigrants remains unaltered, thus immigration seemed not to be a key factor in reducing regional inequalities in human capital endowments.

Keywords: Human capital; migratory flows; regional productive structure; RAS Method. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J61 O15 R12 R15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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