scholarly journals Skills2Graph: Processing million Job Ads to face the Job Skill Mismatch Problem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Giabelli ◽  
Lorenzo Malandri ◽  
Fabio Mercorio ◽  
Mario Mezzanzanica ◽  
Andrea Seveso
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
User Study ◽  
Distributional Semantics ◽  
Skill Mismatch ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Job Ads ◽  
Large Corpus

In this paper, we present Skills2Graph, a tool that, starting from a set of users’ professional skills, identifies the most suitable jobs as they emerge from a large corpus of 2.5M+ Online Job Vacancies (OJVs) posted in three different countries (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany). To this aim, we rely both on co-occurrence statistics - computing a count-based measure of skill-relevance named Revealed Comparative Advantage (rca) - and distributional semantics - generating several embeddings on the OJVs corpus and performing an intrinsic evaluation of their quality. Results, evaluated through a user study of 10 labor market experts, show a high P@3 for the recommendations provided by Skills2Graph, and a high nDCG (0.985 and 0.984 in a [0,1] range), that indicates a strong correlation between the experts’ scores and the rankings generated by Skills2Graph.

Do Employment-Conditional Earnings Subsidies Work?

2018 ◽  
pp. 154-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lane Kenworthy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Relative Poverty ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Market Regulations ◽  
Better Than

Cash transfers and tax credits to people in paid work but with low earnings are increasingly prominent in affluent countries. How effective are these programs at reducing poverty and increasing employment? The experiences of the United States and United Kingdom suggest that, in an economy with weak unions and limited labor market regulations, an employment-conditional earnings subsidy increases employment among persons at the low end of the labor market but reduces low-end wage levels somewhat. Overall, it appears to boost the absolute incomes of low-end households. Even so, cross-country comparison offers little support for a conclusion that the institutional configuration in these countries, including the employment-conditional earnings subsidy, is especially effective at generating high and rising employment, high and rising incomes among low-end households, or low and decreasing relative poverty rates. Quite a few other affluent nations have done as well as or better than the United Kingdom and the United States in recent decades.

scholarly journals Labor Market Slack in the United Kingdom

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N.F. Bell ◽  
David G. Blanchflower
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The United Kingdom
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