Empirical studies of interregional mobility routinely use regional unemployment differentials to characterize economic incentives to move between regions. In this paper, we present a new regional labour market indicator computed from survey data in which respondents are asked to evaluate local...

The large and persistent regional disparities of most European economies have been explained as a disequilibrium phenomenon: convergence between backward and successful regions is slow because the equilibrating forces are weak. Recently, two models have emerged where regional disparities are...