Academic Research Using Lightcast Data
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
Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay
World Bank Group Policy Research Working Paper 11086, March 2025
Measuring and Understanding Differences in Private and Public Sector Technology Jobs: Evidence from Artificial Intelligence Job Posting Data
Published in 2024, Available at SSRN
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
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
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
Vertical Restraints and Labor Markets in Franchised Industries
Published in S&P Global Market Intelligence, December 2023, Available at SSRN
Evaluating the Competitive Effect of the Proposed Kroger-Albertsons Merger in Labor Markets
Issue Date November 11 2023
The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16330, Issue Date July 2023, for Institute of Labor Economics
Effects of Stay-at-home Orders on Skill Requirements in Vacancy Postings
Published in Labour Economics, VOL. 82, JUNE 2023, 102342 by Elsevier
The Wage Phillips Curve under Labor Market Power
Published in American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, VOL. 113, MAY 2023 (pp. 110-13)
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
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss
Published in American Economic Review, VOL. 113, NO. 2, February 2023 (pp. 279-316)
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
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
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
Monopsony in the US Labor Market
Published in American Economic Review VOL. 112, NO. 7, JULY 2022 (pp. 2099-2138)
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
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
Occupational matching and cities
Published 2022 in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 14 (3): 82-132.
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
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
Better Skill-based Job Representations, Assessed via Job Transition Data
Published in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
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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
Do Internal Control Weaknesses Affect Firms’ Demand for Accounting Skills? Evidence from US Job Postings
Published in The Accounting Review, MAY 01 2023
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
Understanding the Diffusion of Business Analysis Responsibilities
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, Apr 12 2023, P 278-288
Dropouts need not apply? the minimum wage and skill upgrading
Published in Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 39, no. S1, January 2021
The demand for AI skills in the labor market
Published in Labour Economics, Volume 71, August 2021, 102002, by Elsevier
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
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