@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13642, author={Davies, Benjamin and Maré, David C.}, title={Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities}, year={2020}, month={Aug}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={13642}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13642}, 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}, }