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Workforce population modelling: Population by convolution

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  • Robert Mark Bryce
  • Jillian Anne Henderson

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In this paper we pursue the premise that personnel inflow into a workforce population maps to the future outflow via the survival time distribution. This directly leads to a population by convolution approach, where the survival time distribution is convolved with the intake profile over time to find the future outflow; the population level is then the cumulative sum of the difference between the intake and outflow. This approach is simple, computationally fast, and provides the expected (mean) population level. We contrast convolution with the standard state-of-the-art Markovian approach, which assumes a memoryless survival time distribution, noting that determining population by convolution is a generalization.

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  • Robert Mark Bryce & Jillian Anne Henderson, 2025. "Workforce population modelling: Population by convolution," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 76(10), pages 2091-2097, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjorxx:v:76:y:2025:i:10:p:2091-2097
    DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2025.2457647
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