More unemployed move to major cities

A new mapping of migration trend has found that considerably larger proportion of unemployed persons in the country move to bigger cities in contrast to outward migration of the unemployed from the major cities, reported the Finnish language news outlet Uusi Suomi.

Based on migration expert Timo Aro’s 2014-2015 statistics on migration, Tampere and Oulu attracted most of unemployed persons during the period.

Analysing the migration trend in Tampere, for instance, the figure of unemployed persons who moved to Tampere is 800 more than the unemployed persons who emigrated from the city.

The second highest net migration was reported in Oulu whose corresponding figure of net immigration of unemployed persons is more than 400.

According to the migration survey map, Vaasa saw the most outward migration of unemployed persons in 2014-2015.

Aro, however, points out that the number of unemployed persons immigrating is quite small and not alarming for the big cities. For instance, in 2015, the number of unemployed person immigrating was less than 10 per cent of the total number of inward migration.

The new unemployment law provision of “active model” has intensified debate on the obligation to people migrating to find work.