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This paper analyzes regional labor mobility in Finland using two complementary empirical approaches: a VAR proposed by Blanchard and Katz (1992) and a gravity model. The results point to a relatively limited regional labor mobility in Finland compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited regional labor mobility is associated with persistent unemployment differentials across regions. Some impediments to regional labor mobility are exogenous, such as large geographical distances across regions and relatively sparse population density, and explain about 23 percent of the variation in labor mobility. Others can be influenced by policy, such as further increase in wage flexibiltiy and reduction of housing costs. These impediments explain about 60 percent of the variation in labor mobility. Greater regional labor mobility could help reduce regional unemployment differentials, improve job matching efficiency, and remove pressures from regional fiscal redistribution.

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Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals-under more or less coercive circumstances-engaged in over the course of their lives. Tracing Mozambican workers as they moved between different types of labor across Mozambique, Rhodesia, and South Africa, Zachary Kagan Guthrie places the multiple venues of labor in a single historical frame, expanding the regional historiography beyond the long shadow cast by the apartheid state while simultaneously exploring the continuities and fractures between South Africa, southern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Kagan Guthrie's holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers' choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.

Foreign workers, Mozambican --- Forced labor --- Labor mobility --- Labor --- Migrant labor --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Mobility, Labor --- Migration, Internal --- Labor supply --- Labor turnover --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Alien labor, Mozambican --- Mozambican foreign workers --- History. --- Mozambique --- Colónia de Moçambique (Portugal) --- Mo-san-pi-kʻo --- Moçambique --- Mosambiek --- Mosambik --- Mozambico --- Mozambik --- Msumbiji --- Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Mozambik --- NR Mozambik --- NRM (Mozambique) --- People's Republic of Mozambique --- Province de Mozambique (Portugal) --- Província de Moçambique (Portugal) --- República de Moçambique --- República Popular de Moçambique --- State of Mozambique --- Volksrepublik Mosambik --- Portuguese East Africa --- Economic conditions --- Colonial influence. --- History --- E-books