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Can regional policies shape migration flows?
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Abstract Our empirical analysis focuses on the effect of regional policies on migration attraction factors in Europe. We employ a regression discontinuity design to assess the causal relationship between the reception of large amounts of public funds and migration flows in the EU-15 regions. In highly-subsid... view more
Our empirical analysis focuses on the effect of regional policies on migration attraction factors in Europe. We employ a regression discontinuity design to assess the causal relationship between the reception of large amounts of public funds and migration flows in the EU-15 regions. In highly-subsidised regions, we find a large increase in the share of foreign citizens from less-developed countries when compared to low-subsidised regions with similar pre-treatment characteristics. The analysis shows that such an increase is due to the positive impact of the European regional policy on job market opportunities as well as the improvement of public goods supply.... view less
Keywords
microcensus; EU; regional policy; migration; regression
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
EU cohesion policy; regression discontinuity design; Mikrozensus 2001
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 515-536
Journal
Papers in Regional Science, 101 (2022) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12670
ISSN
1435-5957
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0