Inter-regional migration in Romania

Subrata Ghatak () and Monica Ioana Pop-Silaghi ()
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Subrata Ghatak: Kingston University London

No 2009-4, Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, Kingston University London

Abstract: This paper examines the role of wage relativities and unemployment levels as major potential economic causes of internal migration between the separate regions of Romania in the period 1995 - 2005. The different inter-regional migration routes are treated as cross-section units in a panel data structure, with unobserved characteristics for each route modelled as fixed effects. SURE estimation indicates that inter-regional wage relativities have indeed had a significant influence on internal migration flows but relative unemployment levels have apparently played no part.

Keywords: Keywords: Regional migration; Harris Todaro model; transition economies; Romania; SURE Model. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2009-10-22
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