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Regional Labor Mobility in Spain
Lucy Qian Liu
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.
Keywords:
Labor mobility; interregional migration; regional labor market; gravity; labor market variable; migration flow; labor market duality; protection benefit; labor market condition; duality issue; labor market indicator; migration outflow; Labor markets; Migration; Labor force; Unemployment rate; Global
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Republic of Lithuania: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper examines inflation dynamics over the past five years for Lithuania. A decomposition of inflation into its components provides clues to its main causes. It shows that energy price increases and convergence to European Union (EU)-wide price levels have been important factors driving inflation, but domestic demand pressures—and wage growth, in particular—have also contributed to inflation. The types of possible efficiency gains are illustrated in the context of health care and social assistance. The paper also examines migration and its long-term fiscal implications.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; labor market; inflation development; demand pressure; decomposition of inflation; migration rate; emigration incentive; Inflation; Migration; Informal economy; Health care; Eastern Europe; Baltics