Academic Research
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Researchers frequently analyze Lightcast data to inform their own insights across a wide range of disciplines.
This comprehensive list includes reports authored by Lightcast (entirely or in part) as well as other releases where Lightcast data was employed from 2021-Present. Interested in securing our data for your research? Contact us.
Academic Research
Cedefop, & OECD
New fields for apprenticeship: insights for successful expansion of apprenticeships to new sectors and occupations.
Publications Office of the European Union. Cedefop reference series, 130. DOI: 10.2801/2636477, TI-01-26-018-EN-N, ISBN: 978-92-896-3968-2, 02/06/2026
Damian Grimshaw, Mary O’Mahony, and Anthony Rafferty
Skills, Organisations and Worker Engagement: Summary of People Research Programme
The Productivity Institute Productivity Insights Paper No. 083, April 2026
Sam Manning, Tomás Aguirre, Mark Muro, Shriya Methkupally
Measuring US workers’ capacity to adapt to AI-driven job displacement
The Brookings Institution, January 21, 2026
Eric Bradlow, James Crowley, Ken Munie, Selen Karaca-Griffin
The Skills Mismatch Economy: Insights from the Wharton-Accenture Skills Index
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania AI & Analytics & Accenture, published in Knowledge at Wharton, January 9, 2026,
Di Tong, Lingfei Wu & James A. Evans
Lower-skilled occupations face greater upskilling pressure in U.S. job ads
Nature Communications, Article in Press, Published: 31 December 2025
Eugenia Menaguale
Stellar Skills: Superstar Firms and the Specialization of Human Capital
December 23, 2025; Princeton University, Department of Economics
Alexia Delfino, Andrea Garnero, Sergio Inferrera, Marco Leonardi, Raffaella Sadun
Unwilling to Reskill? Experimental Evidence from Real-World Jobseekers
Harvard Business School, Working Paper 26-041, December 22, 2025
William Ferris and Sarthak Mehrotra
Aquaculture as a Resilient Economic Development Strategy: Explorations in Coastal North Carolina Counties in the Context of Tourism
Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy 55 (4): 27–40. November 09, 2025
Liu, Yan and Liu, Yan and Wang, He and Yu, Shu
Labor Demand in the Age of Generative AI: Early Evidence from the U.S. Job Posting Data
September 19, 2025. Available at SSRN.
Aida Garcia-Lazaro, Jorge Mendez-Astudillo, Susan Lattanzio, Charles Larkin, Linda Newnes
The digital skill premium: Evidence from job vacancy data
Economics Letters, Volume 250, 2025, 112294, ISSN 0165-1765
Ishita Acharyya and Hudan Nuch
Our Gen AI Transition - Implications for Work and Skills
Jobs and Skills Australia, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025
Mark Muro and Shriya Methkupally
Mapping the AI economy: Which regions are ready for the next technology leap
The Brookings Institution, July 16, 2025
Matthew Bone, Eugenia Gonzalez Ehlinger, Fabian Stephany
Skill or Degree? The rise of skill-based hiring for AI and green jobs.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 214, 124042, July 2025
Cerina, F, Deidda, LG, Nobili, S
Skill-biased remote work and incentives
Working Paper, 2025, Number: 25_05, ISBN Number: 978 88 6851 573 7
Vasilis Douzenis
The Value of Beauty: The socio-economic impact of the beauty and personal care industry in the EU27
Oxford Economics, 18 Mar 2025
Evelyn Vezza, Gonzalo Zunino, Luis Laguinge, Harry Moroz, Ignacio Apella, Marla Spivack
Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay
World Bank Group Policy Research Working Paper 11086, March 2025
Elina Mäkelä and Fabian Stephany
Complement or Substitute? How AI Increases the Demand for Human Skills
February 25, 2025, Available at SSRN
Francesca Giambona & Adham Kahlawi
Mapping ICT skills demand: a latent transition analysis of online job advertisements in Italy
Qual Quant 59 (Suppl 2), 879–89908, Published January 2025, Issue Date April 2025
Christos Makridis, Gil Alterovitz
Measuring and Understanding Differences in Private and Public Sector Technology Jobs: Evidence from Artificial Intelligence Job Posting Data
Published in 2024, Available at SSRN
Wilbur Xinyuan Chen, Suraj Srinivasan and Saleh Zakerinia
Displacement or Complementarity? The Labor Market Impact of Generative AI
Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-039, December 2024
Yiming Zhang and Jian Yuan
Do Mutual Funds Benefit from the Adoption of AI Technology?
August 07, 2024. HKUST Business School Research Paper No. 2024-165, Available at SSRN
Amanda Reid, Hugh Dixon, Connor McIndoe, and Satrio Wiradika
A skills-based wine workforce
©BERL Reference No: #6378 June 2024
Chris Compton, Enas Farag, Marshall Steinbaum
How A Retrospective Analysis of the Acquisition of Target's Pharmacy Business by CVS Health: Labor Market Perspective
Published in Social Science Research Network, 19 April 2024
Marcus Dillender
How Do Medicaid Expansions Affect the Demand for Health Care Workers? Evidence from Vacancy Postings
Published in Journal of Human Resources Vol. 59, Issue 2, 1 Mar 2024
E. Mark Curtis, Layla O'Kane, R. Jisung Park
Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions
Working Paper 31539, DOI 10.3386/w31539, Issue Date August 2023, for National Bureau of Economic Research
Brian Callaci, Sergio Pinto, Marshall Steinbaum, and Matthew Walsh
Vertical Restraints and Labor Markets in Franchised Industries
Published in S&P Global Market Intelligence, December 2023, Available at SSRN
Marshall Steinbaum
Evaluating the Competitive Effect of the Proposed Kroger-Albertsons Merger in Labor Markets
Issue Date November 11 2023
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Brian Callaci, Matthew Gibson, Sergio Pinto, Marshall Steinbaum, and Matt Walsh
The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16330, Issue Date July 2023, for Institute of Labor Economics
Ran Gu, Ling Zhong
Effects of Stay-at-home Orders on Skill Requirements in Vacancy Postings
Published in Labour Economics, VOL. 82, JUNE 2023, 102342 by Elsevier
Anastasia Burya, Rui Mano, Yannick Timmer, Anke Weber
The Wage Phillips Curve under Labor Market Power
Published in American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, VOL. 113, MAY 2023 (pp. 110-13)
Anastasia Burya, Rui Mano, Yannick Timmer, Anke Weber
Rupert Ward, Tom Crick, James Davenport, Paul Hanna, et al
Using skills profiling to enable badges and micro-credentials to be incorporated into higher education courses
Published in Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2023 pp. 1-22. ISSN 1365-893X by Northumbria University
J. Carter Braxton, Bledi Taska
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss
Published in American Economic Review, VOL. 113, NO. 2, February 2023 (pp. 279-316)
J. Carter Braxton, Bledi Taska
Avi Goldfarb, Bledi Taska, Florenta Teodoridis
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings
Published in Research Policy, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2023, 104653 by Elsevier
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell, Pascual Restrepo
Artificial intelligence and jobs: evidence from online vacancies
Published in Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 40, Number S1 April 2022 by The University of Chicago
Christa Larsen, Jenny Kipper, Alfons Schmid, Marco Ricceri
The Relevance of Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Transformation of Regional and Local Labour Markets Across Europe
Published 2022 in Nomos eLibrary ISBN online: 978-3-95710-411-3
Shuang Chen
Green Investors and Green Transition Efforts: Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk?
October 21, 2022; Available at SSRN
Chen Yeh, Claudia Macaluso, Brad Hershbein
Monopsony in the US Labor Market
Published in American Economic Review VOL. 112, NO. 7, JULY 2022 (pp. 2099-2138)
Nathan Wilmers, Letian Zhang
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium
Published in American Sociological Review, Volume 87, Issue 3 Pages: 415 - 442 April 13, 2022
Eliza Forsythe, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange, David Wiczer
Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery
Published in Labour Economics Volume 78, October 2022, 1022512022 by Elsevier
Theodore Papageorgiou
Occupational matching and cities
Published 2022 in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 14 (3): 82-132.
Arik Ben DorJingling GuanAdam KelleherAdam Lauretig, et al
ESG and Alternative Data: Capturing Corporates’ Sustainability-Related Activities with Job Postings
Published in The Journal of Financial Data Science, 10 December 2021 10.3905/jfds.2021.1.082
Eric Condie, Ling Lei Lisic, Timothy A. Seidel, J. Mike Truelson, Ally Zimmerman
Does Gender and Ethnic Diversity among Audit Partners Influence Office-Level Audit Personnel Retention and Audit Quality?
Published in Contemporary Accounting Research, 11 May 2020, Available at SSRN
Tyler Baldwin, Wyatt Clarke, Maysa M. Garcia de Macedo, Rogerio de Paula, Subhro Das
Better Skill-based Job Representations, Assessed via Job Transition Data
Published in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Ben-Ner, Avner, Ainhoa Urtasun, Bledi Taska
Effects of New Technologies on Work: The Case of Additive Manufacturing
Published in ILR Review, Volume 76, Issue 2, November 22, 2022, by Cornell University
Gao, Janet, Kenneth Merkley, Joseph Pacelli, Joseph H. Schroeder
Do Internal Control Weaknesses Affect Firms’ Demand for Accounting Skills? Evidence from US Job Postings
Published in The Accounting Review, MAY 01 2023
Bertoletti, A., Cosgrove, J. and Lopez Cobo, M.
AI skills supply and demand - An analysis through online job advertisements and education and training offer
Publications Office of the European Union. JRC143488. ISBN: 978-92-68-31110-3 (online). ISSN: 1831-9424 (online). Luxembourg, 2025
David S. Pedulla, John Muñoz, Katherine E. Wullert, Felipe A. Dias
Field Experiments and Job Posting Sources: The Consequences of Job Database Selection for Estimates of Racial Discrimination
Published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages: 26 - 42, January 2022
Amy Harris, Carol Clark
Understanding the Diffusion of Business Analysis Responsibilities
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, Apr 12 2023, P 278-288
Jeffrey Clemens, Lisa B. Kahn, Jonathan Meer
Dropouts need not apply? the minimum wage and skill upgrading
Published in Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 39, no. S1, January 2021
Liudmila Alekseeva, José Azar, Mireia Giné, et al.
The demand for AI skills in the labor market
Published in Labour Economics, Volume 71, August 2021, 102002, by Elsevier
Edward Felten, Manav Raj, Robert Seamans
Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses
Published in Strategic Management Journal, Volume42, Issue12, December 2021, Pages 2195-2217
Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger
Ban-the-Box Measures Help High-Crime Neighborhoods
Published in The Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 64, Number 1, February 2021, by The University of Chicago Press
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