Programme
08:30-09:00 | Welcome coffee |
09:00-09:10 | Welcome and introductions (Toni Hilton, Stefan Speckesser, University of Brighton) |
09:10-10:00 | Using online job adverts to measure skills and knowledge in the Office for National Statistics (ONS); Gueorguie Vassilev, Head of Skills, Time-use and Economic Well-being, ONS |
10:00-11:35 | Session 1: Job vacancy data as a new resource to understand skills in jobs
Generating Linked Skills Data for Knowledge Discovery in German Labour Market Documents; Jens Dörpinghaus, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany New insights on skills from the application of economic complexity to UK job postings data; Elena Magrini, Lightcast Examining the effect of labour market slack on wages during periods of reduced mobility; Dafni Papoutsaki, University of Brighton |
11:35-11:45 | Break/refreshments |
11:45-13:00 | Session 2: Specific skills 1: Digital
AI skills on the labour market; Michael Stops, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg Associations of digital skills and earnings in occupations with mid-range Skills: Empirical evidence from apprenticeship vacancy data from England; Lei Xu, University of Bournemouth |
13:00-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-14:45 | Session 3: Specific skills 2: Technological change and decarbonisation
Who’s fit for the low-carbon transition? Emerging skills and wage gaps in job ad data; Misato Sato, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science Automation, Skill and Job Creation; Kaizhao (Gavin) Guo, Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School |
14:45-16:00 | Session 4: Understanding occupational knowledge, behaviour and job quality
What’s a ‘female’ occupation anyways? On the cultural foundation of occupational stereotypes; Felix Busch, University of Zurich Building a data-driven taxonomy of job quality; Cath Sleeman, Nesta |
16:00-16:15 | Break/refreshments |
16:15-17:30 | Policy session on Future Skills: Frank Bowley, Head of the Unit for Future Skills, Department for Education (requested) |
17:30 | Close/plans for further collaboration |
18:30 | Workshop dinner (tbc) |