Alternative approaches to monitoring working hours:Use of location data from cell phones

Yuta Kuroda and Shinpei Sano

No 149, DSSR Discussion Papers from Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University

Abstract: This study examines the potential of mobile phone location data for measuring working hours. We compare hourly population estimates from Mobile Spatial Statistics with card-reader attendance records of teachers at Japanese public high schools. The analysis shows a strong correlation between location-based indicators and actual working hours. Mobile data provide more accurate proxies in areas with few residents, where background noise is limited, and in schools with many employees. These results suggest that large-scale mobility data can serve as a valuable resource for labor research when direct administrative records are not accessible.

Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2025-11
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