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CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog: Do foreign migrants `grease the wheels? of the labour market? [by Michael Amior]
11 December 2018
Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional disparities which plague our societies. These disparities have been partly driven by a secular decline in manufacturing employment, whose impact has been heavily concentrated geographically. In principle, these disparities should be eliminated by regional mobility. But at least in the US, fewer people are making long-distance moves than in the past.