This paper analyzes regional labor mobility in Finland using two complementary empirical approaches: a VAR proposed by … Blanchard and Katz (1992) and a gravity model. The results point to a relatively limited regional labor mobility in Finland … compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited regional labor mobility is associated with persistent unemployment …

This paper studies the main factors that explain the low regional mobility in Spain, with a view to identifying policy … options at the regional and central level to promote labor mobility. The empirical analysis finds that house prices, labor …'s regional mobility, while labor market institutions and policies play an important role at the national level. Policies that …

Blacks in the United States have a lower geographic mobility rates than whites even though they have several … characteristics that are usually associated with high rates of mobility: high unemployment, low rate of home ownership, low marriage … mobility by using proxies that are constructed using data from the University of Michigan’s Panel Study of Income Dynamics …