payments, investments in education, health, and other basic services, and by facilitating out-migration …

compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited regional labor mobility is associated with persistent unemployment …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 …

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 …

levels of skills during relatively high unemployment. The impact of the size of the flow and the skill characteristics of the … immigrants are analyzed. It is found that immigration is positively related to unemployment in the short run but in the long run …

estimate the dynamic response of regional employment, unemployment, participation rates and net migration to state … decreased over time, suggesting less overall net migration in response to a regional shock, (ii) the role of the participation … rate as absorber of regional shocks has increased, (iii) the response of net migration to regional shocks is stronger …

of interstate migration to relative labor market conditions has decreased, while the role of the unemployment rate as … absorber of regional shocks has increased. However, the response of net migration to regional shocks is stronger during … pattern of migration response based on the variation in consumption risk sharing …

particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment … short-run adjustment is over, there is less labor migration in Belgium than in the United States or Europe, corroborating …