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The demand for language skills in the European labour market: Evidence from online job ads

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  • Gabriele Marconi
  • Loris Vergolini

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We investigate foreign language skill demand and its determinants with a novel dataset, the Web Intelligence Hub's Online Job Advertisement (OJA) database, with information on about 53 million ads posted in 2021 for jobs in Europe. This unique dataset has been built crawling hundreds of job search engines and websites of public employment services, allowing us to identify foreign language requirements in OJAs at the NUTS-3 regional level. Moreover, we analyse how the demand for foreign languages varies at occupational level in the European countries as well as the possible macro factors (GDP, population density; participation rate in education and training; percentage of people employed in the high-tech sector and in the touristic sector) that could influence the request for foreign languages.

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  • Gabriele Marconi & Loris Vergolini, 2022. "The demand for language skills in the European labour market: Evidence from online job ads," FBK-IRVAPP Working Papers 2022-08, Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP), Bruno Kessler Foundation.
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    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General

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