INTRODUCTION Migration and mobility have for a long caught a lot of attention in theory as well as in public debate. But in actual fact the large majority of people does not move. Worldwide, only about 2% of the total population live outside their home countries. For Europe, records on internal mobility are not substantially different. In many European countries mobility has had a tendency to decrease substantially since the late sixties and early seventies. Not …showed first 75 words of 2164 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2164 total…second level is the level of the society at all. Here we consider 2 sublevels: the regional one and the national one. The effect in both is the high rate of unemployment. Workers who are not willing to transfer from one region to another face the phenomenon of unemployment. Considering the traditional utility maximising migration function we assume that individuals decide whether to move or not by comparing expected utilities at alternative destinations with their situation. ¨ .