Using Labor Market Stocks to Identify Labor Market Flow Nissim Ben David

Ben-David Nissim
DOI: 10.4236/me.2011.22021                

Abstract

A technique that permits the calculation of the flow of agents between and within labor market states is pre-sented. A statistical agency having collected data on those flows easiest to collect and together with data on employment, unemployment and being out of the labor force, will be able to calculate the rest of the flows. The contribution of this paper is in suggesting an easy process which overcomes the difficulties statistical agencies usually have in collecting flow data.

Keywords

Labor Market Flows, Labor Market Stocks

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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