Regional mobility and unemployment transitions in the UK and Spain

Peter Wright, Joanne Lindley () and Richard Upward

No 223, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 from Royal Economic Society

Abstract: If the distribution of industrial employment is uneven across regions, changes in patterns of production will require the reallocation of labour across regions as well as industries. In this paper we consider this aspect of the adjustment process. Specifically, we compare the geographical mobility of the workforce in the UK and Spain, and examine the extent to which differences in mobility explain differences in the probability of exiting unemployment between the two countries.

Keywords: unemployment; mobility; regional migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-06-04
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