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1	Rule versus Interaction Function : Evaluating Regional Aggregations of Commuting Flows in Sweden Landré, Martin, Håkansson, Johan January 2013 (has links) The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of two divergent methods for delineating commuting regions, also called labour market areas, in a situation that the base spatial units differ largely in size as a result of an irregular population distribution. Commuting patterns in Sweden have been analyzed with geographical information system technology by delineating commuting regions using two regionalization methods. One, a rule-based method, uses one-way commuting flows to delineate local labour market areas in a top-down procedure based on the selection of predefined employment centres. The other method, the interaction-based Intramax analysis, uses two-way flows in a bottom-up procedure based on numerical taxonomy principles. A comparison of these methods will expose a number of strengths and weaknesses. For both methods, the same data source has been used. The performance of both methods has been evaluated for the country as a whole using resident employed population, self-containment levels and job ratios for criteria. A more detailed evaluation has been done in the Goteborg metropolitan area by comparing regional patterns with the commuting fields of a number of urban centres in this area. It is concluded that both methods could benefit from the inclusion of additional control measures to identify improper allocations of municipalities. / <p>Open Access</p>
2	Home, Job and Space : Mapping and Modeling the Labor Market Östh, John January 2007 (has links) How does space affect individuals’ outcome on the labor market? And how do we measure it? Beyond the notion of the labor market as a system of supply and demand, lays a society of individuals and workplaces, whose relationships are undeniably complex. This thesis aims to shed some new light on how to investigate and analyze the complex labor market relationships from a spatial perspective. In this thesis, five self-contained articles describe the spatial relationship between individuals and workplaces. In the first article, the official delineation of local labor market areas is tested against the delineation of labor markets for different subgroups. Differences in the regionalization are discussed from the subgroups’ and municipals’ perspective. In the second article, two sources of bias in the computation of local labor market areas, and suggestions how to reduce them, are presented. In the third article the spatial mismatch hypothesis is tested and confirmed on a refugee population in Sweden. In articles four and five, a new model for the estimation of job accessibility is introduced and evaluated. The model, ELMO, is created to answer to the need for a new accessibility measure to be used in spatial mismatch related research. The usability of the model is validated through empirical tests, were the ELMO-model excels in comparison to the accessibility models it is tested against. Social and economic geography GIS ELMO Estimated Labor Market Outcome Estimated Labour Market Outcome Accessibility Access Job Accessibility Place Employment Unemployment Labour Labor Labor Market Labour Market Topology Local Labour Market Area Modelling Modeling Spatial Modelling Spatial Modeling Spatial Mismatch SMH Mismatch Commuting Regionalization Geography Population Geography Economic Geography Time-geography Space Kulturgeografi

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Rule versus Interaction Function : Evaluating Regional Aggregations of Commuting Flows in Sweden

Home, Job and Space : Mapping and Modeling the Labor Market