TY - RPRT AU - Davies, Benjamin AU - Maré, David C. TI - Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities PY - 2020/Aug/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 13642 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13642 AB - 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. KW - community detection KW - commuting KW - functional boundaries KW - labour market areas KW - networks ER -