Delineating functional labour market areas with estimable classification stabilities

Benjamin Davies and David Maré

No 20_08, Working Papers from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

Abstract: We describe an unsupervised method for delineating functional labour market areas (LMAs) in national commuting networks. Our method uses the Louvain algorithm, which we extend to support top-down hierarchical LMA classification and estimable classification stabilities. We demonstrate our method using historical Census commuting data from New Zealand.

Keywords: community detection; commuting; functional boundaries; labour market areas; networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2020-09
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