Labour Market Flows (LAMAFLO): Individual labour market flows, transition rates and spell durations constructed from UKHLS/BHPS work life history data files
The Fellowship will provide full histories of individuals’ labour market dynamics over their lives. This new event history data will be constructed in the most user-friendly form possible, to encourage wider use. The Fellowship will generate code and datasets providing information on labour market flows, transition rates, and spell durations, as well as simple metrics such as counts of particular transitions and spell types between interviews. The Fellowship will undertake research using these data to construct ‘aggregate’ flow rates. These will be used as a diagnostic for alternative methods of constructing work life histories, for comparing the outcomes of UKHLS and BHPS data collection methods, and to compare with external data sources such as the Labour Force Survey. The Fellowship intends to provide the research community with data that are often requested and currently not readily available. Labour market dynamics variables such as flows, transitions, durations and counts are not easy to calculate. The Fellowship aims to provide these and related data in the most user-friendly form possible. There are also methodological implications of focusing on labour market dynamics: addressing the construction of work-life histories using the lens of dynamics can lead to different decisions about the treatment of conflicting and missing data, compared to existing methods. UKHLS and BHPS data are an under-utilised source of information on labour market dynamics. The research, data and policy communities will benefit from provision and analysis of this additional excellent source of information. The ability in the UKHLS/BHPS to analyse labour market dynamics alongside very rich other data will enable research that is not possible using other sources.
Outputs
- Labour market dynamics constructed from UKHLS work-life history data files. Find the code and documents relating to it on the LAMAFLO GitHub.
