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What do border obstacles cost the Nordic region?

Is it possible to calculate how much the Nordic countries are loosing because of the many remaining border obstacles affecting the labour market? According to Copenhagen Economics no border obstacles would mean 3,000 to 6,000 more cross-border commuters. If all of them came out of unemployment it would save 4.2bn Danish kroner (€56m).
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The Nordic region is more integrated than other comparable European regions - except from when it comes to the trading of goods, according to a report on the costs of border obstacles. The picture above is from a mall that the Norwegian real estate investor Olav Thon has built in Värmland in Sweden.

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The region was created in 1997 and with its 110,000 cross-border commuters it is the one European region with most people living in one country while working in another.

7.8 million people live in the greater region which comprises four separate regions. The region's name is often abbreviated SLLR.

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