Shaped by urban-rural divide and skill the drivers of internal mobility in Italy
Bergantino, Angela S. (University of Bari. Department of Economics, Management and Business Law)
Clemente, Antonello (University of Bari. Department of Economics, Management and Business Law)
Iandolo, Stefano (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
Turati, Riccardo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada

Date:	2025
Description:	54 pag.
Abstract:	This paper examines the evolution and determinants of skill-specific internal mobility among Italian citizens by urban-rural origin. Using administrative data from the Registry of Trans- fer of Residence (ADELE), which records the universe of skill-specific bilateral moves across more than 700 millions potential municipality pairs between 2012 and 2022, we document distinct trends in residential mobility for college-educated and non-college-educated citi- zens. We then assess the role of economic and non-economic factors in shaping these flows, employing a Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator with an extensive set of destination and origin-by-nest fixed effects. Our findings show that low-skilled movers respond more strongly to economic factors, while high-skilled movers are respond more to non-economic ones, with the urban-rural divide at origin amplifying these differences. More- over, we find that after the COVID-19 pandemic, economic drivers became less relevant, whereas non-economic factors gained importance. Overall, this study highlights that, simi- lar to international migration, the drivers of internal mobility are inherently skill-specific.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-124713OB-I00
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Working paper
Subject:	Migration ; Human Capital ; Urban-Rural ; Italy ; COVID-19

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