We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19
pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled …

A recent surge of users migrating from Twitter to alternative platforms, such as Mastodon,
raised questions regarding what migration patterns are, how different platforms impact user …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a widespread shift to remote work, reducing the level of
face-to-face interaction between workers and changing their modes and patterns of …

Digitalization, automation, robotization and green transition are key current drivers changing
the labour markets and the structure of skills needed to perform tasks within jobs. Mitigating …

This paper studies adjustments in labor demand of firms exposed to the recent China-US
trade war. Our analysis leverages information from a Chinese online job board and a firm …

This paper examines the relationship between labour market conditions and wage dynamics
by exploiting a unique dataset of more than one million online job vacancies. We find a …

We present an analysis of wages and labor market tightness for regular workers (full-time
permanent workers) in Japan, utilizing a novel dataset of online job advertisements …

Uncertainty still remains as to the cause of the UK's dramatic productivity puzzle that began
during the Great Financial Crisis. Occupational mismatch has been implicated as driving up …

Timely and accurate statistics on the labour market enable policymakers to rapidly respond
to changing economic conditions. Estimates of job vacancies by national statistical agencies …

Real-time social media data hold great conceptual promise for research and policymaking,
but also face substantial limitations and shortcomings inherent to processing re-purposed …