commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the … counties or counties in the same commuting zone. Standard economic explanations, which emphasize differences in utility or …

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … than the openly unemployed. In this case, this is due to the relatively higher probability of commuting that predominates … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour …

I describe the extent and structure of cross-border commuting in the EU 27 to show that this is important only in a …