This study aims to find a relationship between the distribution of locals inside of Sweden and the municipalities’ relative concentration of foreigners. With the usage of data found in the website Statistics Sweden, we aim to investigate the existence of any relationship between the local population size of a municipality against the number of foreigners present in said municipalities, and see whether foreigners and immigrants are more concentrated in more populated municipalities rather than less populated ones. We aim to do this by utilizing multiple regression and dummy variables to identify whether there is a significant extra negative or positive effect on foreigners. The answer seems to be that foreigners are in fact more concentrated in more locally populated municipalities, rather than less populated ones.

Most Swedish local labour markets are geographically small. Each public employment services office defines a commuting area. Often, the shape of the commuting area appears to be influenced by the shape of the local labour market. The search area defined in the Swedish unemployment benefit rules (by the twelve-hour principle) most often includes the local labour market as well as the commuting area. Hence, the most frequent case is that the rules are not applied. Moreover, this indicates that jobseekers may face different mobility demands. It is also inferred that local labour markets is not the optimal spatial delimitation for studies of the unemployed persons search for a job.

This thesis consists of four individual essays, and a joint introduction. The theme of these essays is interaction in and integration of regional labour markets. In view of this theme it is observe ...

This article investigates how time distances within and between municipalities determine the spatial extent of local and regional labor markets. As time distances change, the extent of the labor market will also change. Diminishing time distances will bring about increases in labor market size by integrating formerly spatially separate markets. We analyze such processes using accessibility measures derived from a random choice preference function approach. Accessibility is measured in terms of number of jobs, labor supply and supply of service functions. The aim of the work is to illustrate the usefulness of the purpose-specific accessibility measure we introduce.