Measuring labour mobility and migration using big data

Project Leader: Guy Abel

The "Measuring labour mobility and migration using big data" project aims at developing methodologies to provide recent estimates of (labour) mobility stocks and flows in the EU using data from different sources, including from social media. VID is responsible for developing a methodology to estimate mobility stocks within the EU. It is a project for the European Commission led by Rand Europe and we are collaborating with experts from the University of Manchester, Washington University, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Qatar Computing Research Institute.

Funding Body: EC-DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Project Number: VC/2017/0716
Time Frame: 02.02.2018-28.02.2019