Migratory flows and human capital mobility
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.
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