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
Measuring US workers’ capacity to adapt to AI-driven job displacement
The Brookings Institution, January 21, 2026
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,
Lower-skilled occupations face greater upskilling pressure in U.S. job ads
Nature Communications, Article in Press, Published: 31 December 2025
Unwilling to Reskill? Experimental Evidence from Real-World Jobseekers
Harvard Business School, Working Paper 26-041, December 22, 2025
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
Labor Demand in the Age of Generative AI: Early Evidence from the U.S. Job Posting Data
September 19, 2025. Available at SSRN.
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
The digital skill premium: Evidence from job vacancy data
Economics Letters, Volume 250, 2025, 112294, ISSN 0165-1765
Our Gen AI Transition - Implications for Work and Skills
Jobs and Skills Australia, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025
Mapping the AI economy: Which regions are ready for the next technology leap
The Brookings Institution, July 16, 2025
Skill or Degree? The rise of skill-based hiring for AI and green jobs.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 214, 124042, July 2025
Skill-biased remote work and incentives
Working Paper, 2025, Number: 25_05, ISBN Number: 978 88 6851 573 7
The Value of Beauty: The socio-economic impact of the beauty and personal care industry in the EU27
Oxford Economics, 18 Mar 2025
Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay
World Bank Group Policy Research Working Paper 11086, March 2025
Complement or Substitute? How AI Increases the Demand for Human Skills
February 25, 2025, Available at SSRN
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
Measuring and Understanding Differences in Private and Public Sector Technology Jobs: Evidence from Artificial Intelligence Job Posting Data
Published in 2024, Available at SSRN
Displacement or Complementarity? The Labor Market Impact of Generative AI
Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-039, December 2024
Do Mutual Funds Benefit from the Adoption of AI Technology?
August 07, 2024. HKUST Business School Research Paper No. 2024-165, Available at SSRN
A skills-based wine workforce
©BERL Reference No: #6378 June 2024
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
Green Investors and Green Transition Efforts: Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk?
October 21, 2022; Available at SSRN
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