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| Dataset: | Download the dataset |
| Article: | Utilising online job advertisements to identify labour market imbalances |
This dashboard presents an ongoing, exploratory, data-driven analysis by Cedefop that uses Online Job Advertisements (OJAs), collected as part of Cedefop’s and Eurostat’s joint work in the context of the Web Intelligence Hub, to identify occupations that may be experiencing labour demand imbalances. In this context demand imbalances refer to signals of potential recruitment difficulties for the advertised vacancies.
The analysis combines several OJA-based indicators associated with recruitment difficulties, including increases in labour demand, change in the demand for digital skills, the duration that job advertising remains online, the increase in the share of OJAs posted in a non-native language and an increase in the ratio of OJAs-to-employment for a given occupation. These indicators are combined into a single, normalised EU27-level score ranging from 0 to 1, where higher values indicate stronger signals of demand imbalances as reflected in OJAs.
Caution remark. OJA data are subject to representativeness and classification limitations. Occupations with insufficient coverage have been excluded from the analysis.