In this paper we evaluate whether the accuracy of Finnish unemployment rate forecasts can be improved by utilising the … information in the flows into and out of unemployment. We compare and contrast different methodologies for constructing the flows …

in Eastern and Northern Finland. The rapid rise in regional unemployment disparities in the 1990s can be explained via … unemployment rate has been lower than in Finland on average. Kainuu has the lowest level of the churning rate, where the … unemployment rate has been highest during the past few decades. Thus, the results suggest that the most important structural …