Regional Labor Mobility in Spain

December 13, 2018

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Lucy Qian Liu. Regional Labor Mobility in Spain, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: Economic sectors, Financial crises, Labor, Labor force, Labor markets, Labor mobility, Migration, Population and demographics, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Duality issue, Global, Gravity, Interregional migration, Labor force, Labor market condition, Labor market duality, Labor market indicator, Labor market variable, Labor markets, Labor mobility, Migration, Migration flow, Migration outflow, Protection benefit, Regional labor market, Unemployment rate

Publication Details

Pages:

30
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2018/282
Stock No:

WPIEA2018282
ISBN:

9781484387764
ISSN:

1018-5941

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