Cross-border labour mobility: are East-West and East-East cross-border labour flows differ?

Tiiu Paas

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to outline differences in the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of Estonian people who have worked in a neighbouring country ? Finland, Sweden, Latvia or Russia. The empirical part of this paper relies on data from CV Keskus ? an online employment portal bringing together jobseekers and vacant job posts. The results of our analysis show that different destination regions ? the wealthier countries of Finland and Sweden (referred to as East-West mobility) and Latvia and Russia (referred to as East-East mobility) have attracted workers with different personal and job-related characteristics. Ethnicity and higher education are important determinants in explaining differences between East-West and East-East labour flows. Non-Estonians and people with a higher education have been less likely to work in Finland or Sweden (East-West mobility).

Keywords: international labour mobility; cross-border labour flows; East-West and East-East labour migration; Estonia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 O57 P52 R (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-tra
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