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Documents de travail de l'OCDE sur le développement économique et la création locale d'emplois

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English, French

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

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.

English

Keywords: big data, vacancy data, online job postings, unconventional data sources, Lightcast (Burning Glass)
JEL: R12: Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics / General Regional Economics / Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Y1: Miscellaneous Categories / Data: Tables and Charts; J29: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination: Other; J23: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Labor Demand; O50: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economywide Country Studies / Economywide Country Studies: General; J63: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers / Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs; C89: Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs / Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs: Other
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