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How well do online job postings match national sources in European countries?: Benchmarking Lightcast data against statistical and labour agency sources across regions, sectors and occupation

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  • Wessel Vermeulen
  • Fernanda Gutierrez Amaros

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Data on online job postings represents an important source of information for local labour markets. Many countries lack statistics on labour demand that are sufficiently up-to-date and disaggregated across regions, sectors and occupations. Web-scraped data from online job postings can provide further insights on the trends in labour demand and the skills needed across regions, sectors and occupations. This paper assesses the comparability and validity between Lightcast and other data sources for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden, for the years 2019 to 2022 across regions, sectors and occupations. It concludes with some recommendations for labour market analysts that want to use data on online job postings for assessing labour demand trends.

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  • Wessel Vermeulen & Fernanda Gutierrez Amaros, 2024. "How well do online job postings match national sources in European countries?: Benchmarking Lightcast data against statistical and labour agency sources across regions, sectors and occupation," OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers 2024/02, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2024/02-en
    DOI: 10.1787/e1026d81-en
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    Keywords

    big data; Lightcast (Burning Glass); online job postings; unconventional data sources; vacancy data;
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    JEL classification:

    • C89 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Other
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J29 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Other
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • Y1 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Data: Tables and Charts

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