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Measuring Quality of Employment in Emerging Economies: A Methodology for Assessing Job Amenities using Big Data This brief presents a novel methodology that leverages online vacancy data and natural language processing (NLP) to measure job amenities across different country contexts.

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This methodological brief opens doors to innovative research for emerging countries. Stay tunned or contact us!

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Check out our latest brief outlining a novel methodology using job platform data & NLP to unveil skills trends across diverse sectors & countries, offering insights into skills demand, supply, mismatches & their relationship to job quality.

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My colleagues at Cornell simulated various tariff and retaliation scenarios proposed by Trump on China, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, analyzing impacts on trade flows, sectoral output, real GDP, etc.

paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

This: The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o... @nickkristof.bsky.social

Social and character skills for sure, as there will be a need for adaptability and related skills. If not AI literacy specifically, at least digital literacy and problem solving skills.

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. Lecture by honorary doctor Max Roser – “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.”

They will award me the honorary doctorate for 'making global development more understandable to the public at large.'

And so I'm preparing a talk about global development and why I founded a non-profit, open-access publication.

You can register for the lecture here:
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Developing a New Method to Uncover Skills Trends in Emerging Economies Using Online Data and NLP techniques This research brief outlines a novel methodology using online big data and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze transferable skills trends across diverse sectors and countries, offering insigh...

Very interesting!! 👇
An innovative methodology for analysing skills using big data and natural language processing (NLP), by the Skills, ALMP & Policy Evaluation Unit at the Research Department of the ILO.

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