(Labour) Migration in the Nordic Countries

Role of Cities

Johanna Roto - GIS/Cartography Coordinator - Nordregio

Population change 2002-2012

Index 2002 = 100 Annual average change for the Nordic Countries 0.6 % Impacts of the economic crises

Net Migration 2008-2011

Impacts of the economic crises

European perspective

• Small but interlinked

• Neighbourhood matters? – Within and to Nordic

Countries – UK

• Map: Main bilateral

migration flows in Europe (Source: ESPON DEMIFER)

Nordic linkages

• Map: International migration between the Nordic Countries

Nordic migrations in 2011

• Immigration – 284 000

• Emigration – 153 000

Net migration – 131 000 Source: Nordic Statistical Yearbook 2012

Net Migration 2008-2011

Spatial polarisation: • North-South • East-West • Urban - Rural

Domestic and international migration on

labour markets

• National differences in statistics

• Who is included?

Size matters?

Estimated change in

Employment

• Source: ESPON – ET2050

Thank You

johanna.roto@nordregio.se

More information: - Demographic Synthese Report (http://www.nordregio.se/en/Publications/Publications-2011/Demography-in-the-

Nordic-countries---A-synthesis-report1/ )

- Regional Development in the Nordic Countries (http://www.nordregio.se/en/Publications/Publications-2010/Regional-Development-in-the-Nordic-Countries/ )

- Demographic trends in the Nordic local labour markets (http://www.nordregio.se/en/Publications/Publications-2012/Demographic-trends-in-the-Nordic-local-labour-markets/ )

- Centralbaltic Job Ferry (http://www.nordregio.se/en/Nordregio-Research/Centralbaltic-Job-Ferry-/ and http://cbjobferry.eu/ )

- Maps can be downloaded: http://www.nordregio.se/en/Maps--Graphs/