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

Cette série d’étude s’adresse à un large public. Il s’agit généralement d’un travail collectif, mais les noms des principaux auteurs sont cités. Ces documents existent en général uniquement dans leur version originale – anglais ou français – avec un résumé dans l’autre langue.

English, French

How well do online job postings match national sources in large English speaking countries?

Benchmarking Lightcast data against statistical sources across regions, sectors and occupations

This paper presents the first international assessment of the Lightcast vacancy data representativeness based on benchmarking against officially reported vacancy data in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis compares distributions in the Lightcast data versus official data across large (TL2) regions, industrial sectors and occupational categories. The analysis shows differences in representativeness across countries and on the three dimensions considered. In general, regional representativeness is considerably better than both occupational and sectoral representativeness.

English

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