%0 Report %A Davies, Benjamin %A Maré, David C. %T Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities %D 2020 %8 2020 Aug %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 13642 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13642 %X 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. %K community detection %K commuting %K functional boundaries %K labour market areas %K networks