Expertseminar LABOUR MIGRATION IN THE BALTIC SEA COUNTRIES: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS 25 April 2013 Constitutional Hall, Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, Gedimino av. 53, Vilnius

1. (Labour) Migration in the Nordic
Countries
Role of Cities
Johanna Roto - GIS/Cartography Coordinator - Nordregio

2. Population change 2002-2012
Index 2002 = 100
Annual average change
for the Nordic Countries
0.6 %
Impacts of the
economic crises

3. Net Migration 2008-2011
Impacts of the
economic crises

4. European
perspective
• Small but
interlinked
• Neighbourhood
matters?
– Within and to Nordic
Countries
– UK
• Map: Main bilateral
migration flows in
Europe (Source:
ESPON DEMIFER)

5. Nordic linkages
• Map: International
migration between
the Nordic Countries

6. Nordic migrations in 2011
• Immigration –
284 000
• Emigration – 153
000
Net migration – 131 000
Source: Nordic Statistical Yearbook 2012

7. Net Migration
2008-2011
Spatial
polarisation:
• North-South
• East-West
• Urban - Rural

8. Domestic and
international
migration on
labour markets
• National
differences in
statistics
• Who is included?

9. Size matters?

10. Estimated
change in
Employment
• Source: ESPON –
ET2050

11. 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/