Research

My research focuses on how skills, job structures, and decision-making behaviours shape labour mobility, skill development, and long-term labour-market outcomes. I work across three interlinked areas:

Labour mobility and skills-based modelling Link to heading

I study the role of skills in predicting occupational transitions, using RCA-based representations, similarity metrics, and data-driven approaches to quantify how workers move through labour markets. This includes research on the predictive power of skill overlap for job switches in the United States and the mechanisms underpinning observed mobility patterns.

Agent-based models of labour markets Link to heading

I develop and calibrate agent-based models that reproduce empirical labour-flow networks at scale. These models simulate job creation and destruction, skill acquisition, discrimination mechanisms, and stochastic worker movements, enabling analysis of long-run structural dynamics. My EPJ Data Science paper presents a calibrated ABM that reproduces UK-style mobility patterns from micro-level interactions.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00539-9

Workforce dynamics, hiring behaviour, and policy analysis Link to heading

I model how hiring discrimination and uneven opportunity structures shape workers’ skill trajectories and career outcomes. This work forms the basis of my ADR UK fellowship, which examines how discriminatory hiring practices create persistent differences in skill development and mobility across workers.
https://www.adruk.org/news-publications/news-blogs/unpacking-how-hiring-discrimination-affects-uk-workers-skills/

Current projects Link to heading

  • Labour-flow network ABM. Bottom-up reconstruction of UK labour mobility; calibration to administrative data; analysis of long-run dynamics.

  • Skills evolution and hiring behaviour. Modelling how discrimination and uneven hiring shape skill development over time.

  • Skills-based mobility analysis. Evaluating how skill similarity structures occupational transitions using US labour-market data.

  • Integrated ABM–sorting model. Coupling micro-level mobility simulations with macro-level job sorting mechanisms to examine complementarities, firm heterogeneity, and evolving skill requirements.