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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. 
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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. Geographical distribution of 
       vacancies and number of jobs 
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