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Verónica Escudero
@veescudero.bsky.social
Senior Economist @ILO | PhD @PSEinfo @EHESS_fr | Interested in labor market, skills & social policies #impactevaluation
Share widely 🎙️: our new method to measure job attributes using big data!

w/ @willianadamczyk.bsky.social & IsaureDelaporte 🚀

This methodological brief opens doors to innovative research for emerging countries. Stay tunned or contact us!

🔎 Read more: bit.ly/4kL3LXK

#DecentWork #BigData
Measuring Quality of Employment in Emerging Economies: A Methodology for Assessing Job Amenities using Big Data
This brief presents a novel methodology that leverages online vacancy data and natural language processing (NLP) to measure job amenities across different country contexts.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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👋 Hello Bluesky! We're the Opportunity Lab, a research center at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social producing evidence to inform US social + economic policy. Here, we’ll share the latest research from faculty and graduate student fellows, announce funding opps + events, & more. #econsky #policysky
February 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Check out our latest brief outlining a novel methodology using job platform data & NLP to unveil skills trends across diverse sectors & countries, offering insights into skills demand, supply, mismatches & their relationship to job quality.

Dive here:🔍 bit.ly/4a3Ip2R

#Skills #BigData #FutureOfWork
February 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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My colleagues at Cornell simulated various tariff and retaliation scenarios proposed by Trump on China, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, analyzing impacts on trade flows, sectoral output, real GDP, etc.

paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This: The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o... @nickkristof.bsky.social
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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They will award me the honorary doctorate for 'making global development more understandable to the public at large.'

And so I'm preparing a talk about global development and why I founded a non-profit, open-access publication.

You can register for the lecture here:
www.kuleuven.be/events/engli...
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
Lecture by honorary doctor Max Roser – “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.”
www.kuleuven.be
January 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Very interesting!! 👇
An innovative methodology for analysing skills using big data and natural language processing (NLP), by the Skills, ALMP & Policy Evaluation Unit at the Research Department of the ILO.

Dive into the findings 🔍 bit.ly/4a3Ip2R

#Skills #BigData #FutureOfWork #NLP
Developing a New Method to Uncover Skills Trends in Emerging Economies Using Online Data and NLP techniques
This research brief outlines a novel methodology using online big data and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze transferable skills trends across diverse sectors and countries, offering insigh...
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January 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM