@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5327, author={Gomes, Pedro Maia}, title={Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom}, year={2010}, month={Nov}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={5327}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5327}, abstract={This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the flows and transition probabilities between employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job-to-job flows, employment separations by reason, flows between inactivity and the labour force and flows by education. I decompose contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job-separation rate has been as relevant as the job-finding rate.}, keywords={job-separation rate;job-finding rate;worker gross flows;transition probabilities}, }