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An assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on job and skills demand using online job vacancy data
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This policy brief uses online job vacancy postings as a partial indicator of the impact of COVID-19 on skills demand in five OECD countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) between January and November 2020. The pandemic, as well as containment and mitigation measures designed to halt its spread, had a large but heterogeneous impact on the demand for skills. By early May, the total volume of online job vacancies had fallen by over 50% in all the countries analysed with respect to the beginning of the year, with even larger declines in some sectors. However, the demand for specific skills in the healthcare sector and in logistics increased. There is also evidence of an increase in vacancies involving remote-working arrangements. The brief also shows that the crisis affected differently individuals with different levels of educational qualifications and that such effect differed across the countries analysed.
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- OECD
- Corresponding author
- OECD
- Venue
- OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Published
- 2021-04-09
- ISSN
- 2708-0676 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4210473487
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 8
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- report
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- OECD policy responses to coronavirus (Covid-19) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor Market and Education
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, job vacancies, skills demand, online job postings, remote work, health sector, logistics industry, academic qualifications, labour market impact, containment measures, OECD countries
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