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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Research Fellow opportunity at the University of Westminster for someone interested in applying their quant/code/data skills to employment/social policy projects - apply by 25 Feb vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

More generally, there’s a lot more use that could and should be made of admin data. For a consideration (using RTI microdata) see escoe-website.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This doesn’t detract from the main point of the @resfoundation.bsky.social paper but does highlight differences by data source that existed even before 2020.

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Really interesting analysis - policymakers need accurate information and admin data offers obvious advantages (and disadvantages). Surprised by Fig 2 though, since graphing published series of *employee* jobs (below) shows more employees under the RTI definition than with LFS.

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thanks, just done that. Nice tip

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 13/11/2024

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Finally relocating and looking for people to follow. Main interests are in labour supply and the school-to-work transition. Methods too - randomised trials, quasi experiments, survival analysis - and data. More recently, self-employment and using machine learning for heterogeneous effects.

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