Online workshop: 3 Feb

Big data and the future of work

The workshop will discuss the possibilities of using big data sources to analyze ongoing future of work trends in both developed and developing economies.


The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the Labour Market Information Council of Canada and the ILO are glad to invite you to a research webinar on “Big data and the future of work” organized as part of the EU funded project “Building partnerships on the future of work”.

This project is being undertaken by the ILO and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and aims at developing new evidence around some specific and understudied Future of Work themes.

The objective of the webinar is to bring together experts from the three institutions and external experts to discuss the possibilities of using big data sources to analyze ongoing future of work trends in both developed and developing economies. It will be an opportunity to present recent research work based on different types of big data such as online job vacancies or CVs, geospatial data sources or mobile communication data and discuss their use for policy purposes.

To allow an in-depth discussion and participation of colleagues in other time zones, the meeting will take place on Thursday 3 February (15:00 hours – 18:00 hours Geneva time / 09:00 – 12:00 hours Ottawa time) via Zoom.

To participate in the workshop, please register here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Preliminary agenda (Geneva time)


15h00 – 16h45 Session 1: Online job vacancies and CVs
Chair: Olga Strietska-Ilina (ILO)
Speakers:
  • Tony Bonen (LMIC): “Challenges and opportunities leveraging online job ads to track labour shortages”
  • Matteo Sostero (JRC): “The Professional Lens: Online jobs advertisements and occupational task profiles”
  • Daniel Samaan (ILO): “Using data science to analyze labor markets - New insights on job-to-job transitions“
  • Hannah Liepmann and Verónica Escudero (ILO): “Using online vacancy and applicants’ data to study skills dynamics”

Q&A

16h45 – 18h15 Session 2: Mobile and geospatial data sources
Chair: Aurelio Parisotto (ILO)

Speakers:
  • Matthieu Charpe (ILO): “Night lights as a proxy for economic growth : an application to structural transformation”
  • Linus Bengtsson and Tom Smallwood (Flowminder): “Estimating population mobility from mobile phone usage data"
  • Nicholas Denis (Statistics Canada): “In-season crop area estimation using satellite imagery”

Q&A