This paper uses panel data on migration flows between municipalities in Norway from 2000-2008. The relatively new … variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …

European labour markets display large variations in unemployment rates across regions as well as between education … groups. Insufficient labour force mobility is widely considered the main culprit behind regional unemployment disparities …, but few studies have examined the link between interregional mobility and variation in unemployment rates across education …

accumulating tertiary education and regional income growth in Norway during the past four decades. The expansion of smart cities …

regions in Norway. Large and persistent population flows from the periphery towards urban centers characterize the economic …

estimation of the effect of the unemployment rate on the size of the local employment multiplier shows a neat fit to the … with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 …

youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify the causal effect …