Occupational Coherence and Local Labor Market Performance: Evidence from France

Charlie Joyez, Raja Kali and Catherine Laffineur
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Raja Kali: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Catherine Laffineur: Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France

No 2023-20, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: Why do labor markets in some regions recover faster from an adverse economic shock than others? We conjecture that regions with occupations offering greater redeployment opportunities to other occupations are less at risk of long-term unemployment. We examine this by creating a network of inter-occupation relatedness from worker mobility data that provides occupational transitions for a representative sample of French workers. Superimposing local occupational composition on to this "occupation space" yields a measure of occupational coherence for 304 commuting zones in France. We find that regions with stronger occupational coherence are more sensitive to a shock but recover faster.

Keywords: occupational mobility; regional occupational composition; occupational coherence; economic shocks; unemployment dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2023-12
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