Regional Labor Mobility In Spain

Download or read book Regional Labor Mobility in Spain written by Lucy Qian Liu and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.