Handbook of Labour Mobility

Edited by Rikard H. Eriksson and Høgni Kalsø Hansen

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This informative Handbook evaluates how labour mobility in different forms can help us understand processes of uneven regional development. It examines the motivations and restrictions of labour mobility, including how its patterns can influence firm performance, innovative capacity and long-term regional development.

Keywords: Labour Mobility; Migration; Regional Development; Knowledge Flows; Spatial Inequality; Multi Scalar Processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035331680
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: the past and future of labour mobility

Rikard H. Eriksson and Høgni Kalsø Hansen

Ch 2 Challenges and opportunities of temporary labor migration programs for climate adaptation: lessons from Qatar and South Asia

Michael Ewers, Mohsin Raza and Deborah S.K. Thomas

Ch 3 I can make my own decision: linking (im)mobility to connectivity among Romanian young people from return-migrant family backgrounds

Silvia Marcu

Ch 4 Ordering labour: a shifting labour regime of a ‘green investment’

Madeleine Eriksson and Andreas Nuottaniemi

Ch 5 Chinese internationalization into African and Western labour markets: the impact of market- versus knowledge-seeking motives

Kerstin J. Schaefer and Elisa Gambino

Ch 6 The geography of high-skilled migration and innovation

Stefano Breschi, Zenne Hellinga and Andrea Morrison

Ch 7 Commuting behaviour in Accra's rapidly expanding periphery

Manja Hoppe Andreasen and Lasse Møller-Jensen

Ch 8 Counterurban migration and commuting strategies

Emma Lundholm and Erika Sandow

Ch 9 Folkbildning as skills provision in regional development

Lina Bjerke and Charlotta Mellander

Ch 10 Location of higher education institutions and graduate mobility

Elise Stenholt Lange and Lars Winther

Ch 11 Publication networks and vertical labour mobility in academia: a gendered perspective

Christine Benna Skytt-Larsen

Ch 12 Graduate mobility and job mismatch: state-of-the-art and future challenges

Alessandra Faggian, Carlo Caporali and Federico Zampollo

Ch 13 Enriching the micro perspective in evolutionary economic geography: skill relatedness and the mobility of heterogeneous workers

Zoltán Elekes and Emelie Hane-Weijman

Ch 14 Regional and occupational mobility paths following firm closures in Germany

Anne Otto and Florian Hack

Ch 15 A spatial view of automation technologies and their consequences for jobs

Martin Henning

Ch 16 Co-worker networks in regional labor markets: an economic geography approach

Balázs Lengyel

Ch 17 Platform labour mobility and gender inequality in the gig economy

Al James

Ch 18 Redefining workspaces? Spatial implications of remote working and the potential for local coworking

Nick Clifton, Darja Reuschke and Jed Long

Ch 19 Labour mobility and mobile workers: new implications for rural revitalisation?

Gary Bosworth, Janet Merkel and Jason Whalley

Ch 20 Coworking spaces in smaller and more sparsely populated regions

Josephine V. Rekers, Magnus Andersson, Calle Rosengren and Linda Stihl

Ch 21 How revolutionary is going remote? An occupational and place-based analysis

Patrick Adler and Richard Florida

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