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Locating Shortages in Migrants' Origin Countries: A Big Data Approach

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This working paper is D7.3 (T3.1) of the Horizon Europe project 'Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development' (GS4S). The working paper documents a data collection on vacancies published online, which is being implemented by web scraping online platforms in selected non-EU countries. The data collection aims at locating labour or skill shortages in important origin countries of migration to the EU. Where the shortages coincide with shortages in EU countries, a skill partnership could address both shortages simultaneously. The potential of the web scraped data are explored based on the initial wave of the data collection. The note concludes by outlining how the data collection can be transformed into measures of shortages at the level of occupations and skills.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14071927

Author: Poeschel, Friedrich

Institution: European University Institute

Language: English

Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission