Skills and competences are frequently invoked by policy-makers in reference to labour market developments and education objectives. However, these concepts have different meanings across academic disciplines such as sociology, economics, and education. This paper proposes a unified conceptual...

Data from online job advertisements are increasingly used in the emerging area of "skills intelli-gence" to describe labour market dynamics and the demand for skills in different occupations. Col-lecting this data involves gathering unstructured information from the internet and processing it...

In recent years, the increasing concern about the labour market implications of technological change has led economists to look in more detail at the structure of work content and job tasks. Incorporating insights from other traditions of task analysis, in particular from the labour process...