This study explores the impact of plant-level labor market dynamics and housing markets on gross migration flows. The internal and the external reorganizations of regional labor markets are shown to be related. An increase in internal turnover of jobs and workers in regional labor markets is...

The aim of this study is to characterize the structure and the evolution of Finnish regional labour markets in terms of gross job and worker flows using plant-level data. There is no solid evidence that the job creation rate is on average lower in Eastern and Northern Finland. The rapid rise in...

This study evaluates a regional full employment initiative using the synthetic control method introduced by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003). The aim of the Paltamo Full Employment (PFE) experiment launched in 2009 is to reverse the trend of high and persistent unemployment in contracting regions....