Locating Shortages in Migrants' Origin Countries: A Big Data Approach

This working paper is D7.3 (T3.1) of the Horizon Europe project 'Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development' (GS4S). The working paper documents a data collection on vacancies published online, which is being implemented by web scraping online platforms in selected non-EU countries. The data collection aims at locating labour or skill shortages in important origin countries of migration to the EU. Where the shortages coincide with shortages in EU countries, a skill partnership could address both shortages simultaneously. The potential of the web scraped data are explored based on the initial wave of the data collection. The note concludes by outlining how the data collection can be transformed into measures of shortages at the level of occupations and skills.