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GLOBAL-LOCAL INTERPLAY IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION Pärnu, Estonia, October 1-4, 1998  Dr. Lars Olof Persson
Abstract The Baltic Capital Triangle is the region formed by the three city regions of Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm. The focus of this paper is the emerging spatial planning issues common for this region in the light of new labour force mobility.
The paper adresses the fast transformation in the BSR and its consequences on factor mobility between three different countries in the BSR - Sweden, Finland, and Estonia - and its effects on metropolitan - non-metropolitan settlement within the countries. The paper is future oriented and discusses the prospects for mobility between the three capital regions against a scenario where Estonia is also a member of the European Union.
Supply and mobility of human capital is a key location factor for the emerging information based industries which tend to concentrate to certain. Hence, the growth and location of the knowledge based industry within the BCT will be discussed with relation to new mobility patterns.
But it is also observed that demand for less skilled labour in the service sector will lead to increased mobility. However, it is argued that regulations of the domestic labour market in each country will set limits to this migration.
The paper serves as an introduction to a larger study of spatial planning issues in the light of emergings mobility in the BCT. It is a project within the INTERREG II C framework involving University of Tampere, Estonian Institute for Futures Studies, Swedish Institute for Regional Research and FORA Research Group, Stockholm.
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