Interprovincial migration of the foreign-born and income maximization in Spain

• Autores: Antonio Caparrós Ruiz
• Localización: XVIII Encuentro de economía pública, 2011
• Idioma: español
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  • A relevant topic of the economic literature is the geographical mobility of workers within countries. This is due to the positive influence of labour mobility on the economic convergence of regions and on the improvement in the productivity and allocation of workers. Within this context, a relevant topic is the geographical mobility of foreign workers in the destination country. The study of this topic for the Spanish case is interesting, because Spain is one of the European countries where immigration flows have increased most noticeably for the last years. This paper is aimed, first, at studying the determinants of interprovintial geographical mobility of immigrants in Spain and, second, at obtaining consistent estimates of individual¡¯s opportunity wages as movers or stayers. Findings show that an expected wage gain exerts a positive influence on the interprovintial mobility and leads to a better allocation of resources.