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Regional Labor Mobility in Finland
Mr. Tigran Poghosyan
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 compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited regional labor mobility is associated with persistent unemployment differentials across regions. Some impediments to regional labor mobility are exogenous, such as large geographical distances across regions and relatively sparse population density, and explain about 23 percent of the variation in labor mobility. Others can be influenced by policy, such as further increase in wage flexibiltiy and reduction of housing costs. These impediments explain about 60 percent of the variation in labor mobility. Greater regional labor mobility could help reduce regional unemployment differentials, improve job matching efficiency, and remove pressures from regional fiscal redistribution.
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WP; IMF staff calculation; bargaining centralization; wage response; decentralized wage; regional labor mobility; gravity model; Finland; labor mobility; Labor mobility; Labor force participation; Unemployment; Unemployment rate; Australia and New Zealand; Global; Europe
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Regional Labor Mobility in Finland
Mr. Tigran Poghosyan

, industrial structure, and geography. However, regional disparities could also be a consequence of policy distortions that hamper the adjustment to regional shocks, imposing welfare costs on regions and inflating structural unemployment at the national level. Therefore, addressing the regional dimension of labor market issues should be part of a strategy to reduce structural unemployment. This paper complements past IMF research by focusing on regional labor mobility . Regional labor markets could be characterized by a “challenging trinity”. Countries find it difficult to

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WP; IMF staff calculation; bargaining centralization; wage response; decentralized wage; wage bargaining centralization; labor mobility response Finland; Finland's wage; out-migration rate; response in Finland
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Regional Labor Mobility in Spain
Lucy Qian Liu
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 market conditions, and the pervasiveness of labor market duality at the regional level are the main determinants for Spain’s regional mobility, while labor market institutions and policies play an important role at the national level. Policies that facilitate wage setting flexibility and reduce labor market duality could help enhance the functioning of the labor market, thereby promoting labor mobility. There may be also room for policies to incentivize people to move and provide support through targeted active labor market policies.
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Labor mobility; interregional migration; regional labor market; gravity; labor market variable; migration flow; labor market duality; protection benefit; labor market condition; duality issue; labor market indicator; migration outflow; Labor markets; Migration; Labor force; Unemployment rate; Global