This paper uses panel data on migration flows between municipalities in Norway from 2000-2008. The relatively new … variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …

European labour markets display large variations in unemployment rates across regions as well as between education … groups. Insufficient labour force mobility is widely considered the main culprit behind regional unemployment disparities …, but few studies have examined the link between interregional mobility and variation in unemployment rates across education …

province (region), metropolises. In contrast to the sustainable state of the northern cities in Europe and America, where the …

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …

with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 … city with 3.7% unemployment the average local employment multiplier is 0.91 for current inhabitants and 0.60 for migrants …