This is the repository for the scripts and metadata used in Junquera, Á. F., & Kern, C. (2025). From rules to forests: rule-based versus statistical models for jobseeker profiling. Journal for Labour Market Research, 59(1), 1-27. The paper is available in open access at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-025-00399-w.
The scripts are in the src folder. The microdata used for the analyses
are confidential and were provided by the public employment service of
Catalonia (SOC).
To ensure reproducibility, we use the renv package. Just place all the
files of this repository in your R working directory and run the
following chunk of code. It will install the versions of the packages
that we used to obtain our results.
# Install {renv} if not yet installed
install.packages("renv")
renv::restore()