Our mission is to create and make accessible novel data on the dynamics of the labor markets, we work with research networks and statistical agencies, developing appropriate statistics to inform policy makers, researchers, and simply people seeking knowledge. We emphasize and meet the requirements of stakeholders: users as well as providers, balancing the utility of the data with the confidentiality of the people and businesses whose activities the data describe.
Labor Dynamics Institute
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Executive Director Vilhuber provides training at Québec CAI
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“New Tools Safeguard Census Data”
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Summer 2017 Undergraduate Researchers LDI Replication project
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Executive Director Vilhuber gives testimony to the Commission on Evidence-based Policymaking
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John Abowd to Receive 2016 Julius Shiskin Award
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LDI graduate researcher Hautahi Kingi wins Motu Thesis Scholarship
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LDI Research
NSF-Census Research Network - Cornell node
The Labor Dynamics Institute and partners have embarked on a number of projects as part of the NSF-Census Research Network. Our node's research focuses on data curation and metadata exploration models in the presence of distributed (and secure) curation of confidential data, and on new models using computational statistics algorithms based on boosting to improve the integration, editing, and imputation models that assemble the micro-data used in the Census Bureau's longitudinally linked employer-employee database. Read more...
NSF-Census Research Network - Coordinating Office
In addition to hosting one of the NCRN nodes, LDI and NISS are the Network's Coordinating Office (NCRN-CO). The NCRN-CO is a value-added activity, helping the NCRN nodes to leverage each other's research achievements and leading to scientific and societal impact that exceeds the sum of the individual impacts. Read more...
Synthetic Data Server
The Synthetic Data Server makes synthetic data products by the U.S. Census Bureau available to interested researchers in a controlled environment. Read on...
Recent Documents from LDI
- Two Perspectives on Commuting: A Comparison of Home to Work Flows Across Job-Linked Survey and Administrative Files
Commuting flows and workplace employment data have a wide constituency of users including urban and regional planners,...
Sat, Jul. 15, 2017 - Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Confidentiality Protection as Public Goods
We consider the problem of determining the optimal accuracy of public statistics when increased accuracy requires a...
Mon, Apr. 17, 2017 - Utility Cost of Formal Privacy for Releasing National Employer-Employee Statistics
National statistical agencies around the world publish tabular summaries based on combined employer-employee (ER-EE)...
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