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)
6.2. Identifying skills
6.3. Identifying new or specific skills
6.4. Classifying vacancies into occupations
6.4.1. Manual coding
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
7.2. Vacancy database composition
7.3. Geographical distribution of vacancies and number of jobs
7.4. Labour demand for skills
7.4.1. Educational requirements
7.4.2. Occupational structure
7.4.3. New or specific job titles
7.4.4. The most in-demand skills (ESCO classifications)
7.4.5. New or specific skills demanded in the Colombian labour market
7.4.6. Experience requirements
7.5. Demand by sector
7.6. Trends in the labour demand
7.7. Wages
7.8. Other characteristics of the vacancy database
7.9. Conclusion
8. Internal and External Validity of the Vacancy Database
8.2. Internal validity
8.2.1. Wage distribution by groups
8.2.2. Vacancy distribution by groups
8.3. External validity
8.3.1. Data representativeness: Vacancy versus household survey information
8.3.2. Time series comparison
8.4. Conclusion
9. Possible Uses of Labour Demand and Supply Information to Reduce Skill Mismatches
9.2. Labour market description
9.2.1. Colombian labour force distribution by occupational groups
9.2.2. Unemployment and informality rates
9.2.3. Trends in the labour market
9.3. Measuring possible skill mismatches (macro-indicators)
9.3.1. Beveridge curve (indicators of imbalance)
9.3.2. Volume-based indicators: Employment, unemployment, and vacancy growth
9.3.3. Price-based indicators: Wages
9.3.4. Thresholds
9.3.5. Skill shortages in the Colombian labour market
9.4. Detailed information about occupations and skill matching
9.4.1. Skills
9.4.2. Skill trends
9.5. Conclusions
10. Conclusions and Implications
10.2. Conceptual contributions
10.3. Contributions to methodology
10.4. Empirical contributions
10.5. Implications for practice and policy
10.5.1. For national statistics offices
10.5.2. For policymakers
10.5.3. For education and training providers
10.5.4. For career advisers
10.6. Limitations
10.7. Further research
10.7.1. Improving machine learning and text mining algorithms
10.7.2. New job titles and potential new occupations
10.7.3. International comparison
10.8. Conclusions
Appendix A: Examples of Job Portal Structures