Mobility and spatial dispersion in Spanish regions, 1986-2003
The aim of this paper is the analysis of mobility and spatial dispersion in
internal migrations and its relation with GDP convergence in Spain. The study of mobility
is carried out using two measures based on Markov chains, which belong to a general
family of mobility measures based on the distance between locations of origin and
destination. For the study of spatial dispersion, a measure coming from the concept of
entropy is used. The application of these measures to the sequence of matrixes of migratory
flows between regions in 1986-2003 provides evidence of the loss of the role of
internal migrations as a correction element of regional income disparities.
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