Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom

By Pedro Gomes. Social Science Research Network, 2012

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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.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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In Demography

1. Ayşegül Şahin
2. Michael W L Elsby
3. B. Hobijn

In Economics and Econometrics

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2. Michael W L Elsby
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In General Health Professions

1. Ayşegül Şahin
2. Michael W L Elsby
3. B. Hobijn

Citations in the corpus

• On the importance of the participation margin for labor market fluctuations (2013, background): “It accounts for the nonlinear relationship between flows and stocks, and the out-of-steady-state transmission of past movements in worker flows (in contrast to Shimer, 2012; Gomes, 2012; King, 2011; Kudlyak and Schwartzman, 2012).”