Sectoral and geographical mobility of workers after large establishment cutbacks or closures

• Published in: Environment and planning. A Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1071 - 1091
• Main Authors: Eriksson, Rikard H, Hane-Weijman, Emelie, Henning, Martin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Economic Geography; Ekonomisk geografi; industry relatedness; kulturgeografi; labour mobility; re-employment; redundancy; Redundancyr; Social and Economic Geography; industry relatedness; re-employment; Redundancy; labour mobility

This paper studies redundant workers’ industrial and geographical mobility, and the consequences of post-redundancy mobility for regional policy strategies. This is accomplished by means of a database covering all workers who became redundant in major shutdowns or cutbacks in Sweden between 1990 and...