Differences on the socioeconomical local characteristics for the migrations study

Abstract

This article attemps to know if changes in labour market conditions in the nineties –caused by argentine economic reforms– originated incentives for the geographical movement of workers. The empirical analysis showed that changes in push-pull economic factors increased interregional differences at the beginning of the nineties, in concordance with the economic reforms process. Alternatively, attemps to cluster local labour markets according to its performance after economic transformation were not succecsfull. Job creation was more important in smaller labour markets. Poor or negative job creation was associated to declining or reduced growth of labour incomes but the opposite didn’t happen.