LEADER 00000cam a22006253i 4500 001 on1341997265 003 OCoLC 005 20220930060851.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu|||unuuu 008 220824s2020 xx o 000 0 eng d 019 1236925352 020 9789587845457|q(electronic book) 020 9587845455|q(electronic book) 020 9789587845464|q(electronic book) 020 9587845463|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)1341997265|z(OCoLC)1236925352 037 22573/ctv1g4tqxd|bJSTOR 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dYDX|dJSTOR|dOCLCF|dEBLCP|dDGITA 049 RIDW 050 4 HD5757.A6 082 04 331.1109861|223 090 HD5757.A6 100 1 Rubio, Jeisson Arley Cárdenas. 245 12 A Web-Based Approach to Measure Skill Mismatches and Skills Profiles for a Developing Country: The Case of Colombia. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bSiglo del Hombre Editores :|bSiglo del Hombre Editores,|c2020. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 505 0 Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page - - Author -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Labour Market and Skill Mismatches -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Basic definitions -- 2.2.1. Labour supply -- 2.2.2. Labour demand -- 2.2.3. Informal economy -- 2.2.4. Skills -- 2.3. How the labour market works under perfect competition -- 2.3.1. Labour demand -- 2.3.2. Labour supply -- 2.3.3. Market equilibrium -- 2.4. Market imperfections and segmentation -- 2.4.1. Segmentation -- 2.4.2. Imperfect market information 505 8 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. The Colombian Context -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The characteristics of the Colombian labour market -- 3.2.1. Labour supply -- 3.2.2. Labour demand -- 3.3. Skill mismatches in Colombia -- 3.4. An international example of skill mismatch measures -- 3.5. Lack of accurate information to develop well-orientated public policies -- 3.6. Conclusion -- 4. The Information Problem: Big Data as a Solution for Labour Market Analysis -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. A definition of Big Data -- 4.3. Big Data on the labour market -- 4.3.1. Labour supply -- 4.3.2. Labour demand 505 8 4.4. Potential uses of information from job portals to tackle skill shortages -- 4.4.1. Estimating vacancy levels -- 4.4.2. Identifying skills and other job requirements -- 4.4.3. Recognising new occupations or skills -- 4.4.4. Updating occupation classifications -- 4.5. Big Data limitations and caveats -- 4.5.1. Data quality -- 4.5.2. Job postings are not necessarily real jobs -- 4.5.3. Data representativeness -- 4.5.4. Limited internet penetration rates -- 4.5.5. Data privacy -- 4.6. Big Data in the Colombian context -- 4.7. Conclusion -- 5. Methodology -- 5.1. Introduction 505 8 5.2. Measurement of the labour demand: Job vacancies -- 5.3. Selecting the most important vacancy websites in the country -- 5.4. Web scraping -- 5.5. The organisation and homogenisation of information -- 5.5.1. Education, experience, localisation, among other job characteristics -- 5.5.2. Wages -- 5.5.3. Company classification -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 6. Extracting More Value from Job Vacancy Information (Methodology Part 2) -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Identifying skills -- 6.3. Identifying new or specific skills -- 6.4. Classifying vacancies into occupations -- 6.4.1. Manual coding 505 8 6.4.2. Cleaning -- 6.4.3. Cascot -- 6.4.4. Revisiting manual coding (again) -- 6.4.5. Adaptation of Cascot according to Colombian occupational titles -- 6.4.6. The English version of Cascot -- 6.4.7. Machine learning -- 6.5. Deduplication -- 6.6. Imputing missing values -- 6.6.1. Imputing educational requirements -- 6.6.2. Imputing the wage variable -- 6.7. Vacancy data structure -- 6.8. Conclusion -- 7. Descriptive Analysis of the Vacancy Database -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Vacancy database composition -- 7.3. 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