o:35826 The effects of internal migration on regional convergence: Evidence from Serbia en A B S T R A C T: The paper investigates the effects of internal migration flows on regional convergence in Serbia, a country with large regional disparities, during the period 2000–2018. For this purpose, we implement both the net and the gross (in- and out-) migration approaches. We undertake separate analyses for different categories of the migrant population to explore the impact of migrations involving different levels of human capital. The results show that internal migration flows between NUTS3 units in the observed period mainly fostered divergence, thus con- tradicting the neoclassical theory. This effect is especially pronounced when considering migrations of the active population and prime-age specialists. Keywords: Regional convergence, Internal migration, Regional disparities, Panel analysis, GMM 1552101 1056-8190 1552099 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100062 2025-02-05T11:48:25.066Z 44 no 46 Candelaria Barrios Maja Jandrić Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 0000-0002-7817-919X Dejan Molnar Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 0000-0002-6081-8141 Svetozar Tanasković Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 0000-0002-2903-6520 application/pdf 1996930 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:35826 no yes 18 70 1552253 11A03 Papers in Regional Science 103 6 100062 2024