In a labour market heavily affected by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, ESCO can support a more efficient and rapid recovery. The COVID-19 Skills watcher offers a unique overview of skills that occur most frequently across occupations in every economic sector, where sectors are grouped by the level of negative impact of Covid-19 on their economic output.
This tool is an instrument that provides labour market information and support for skills development, suggesting a focus on those skills that could potentially help workers in dealing with occupational changes.
Combining the ESCO dataset with real-time data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) allowed the development of an interactive 3-levels pie chart. The first level describes 4 different degrees of negative impact of the Coronavirus crisis in the output of global economic sectors. The second level lists 14 economic sectors, sized by the global share of employees within each sector. The third level lists 70 skills, which represent the 5 skills defined as essential for the higher number of occupations within every sector. Skills in the third level are sized by their frequency rate, which defines the frequency of one skill within one sector.
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Use cases
The COVID-19 Skills watcher responds to various needs of ESCO’s implementers. The infographic below shows use cases examples for Public Employment Services, e-learning platforms, international institutions and research bodies.
Public (and private) employment services are expected to play a crucial role in preventing the labour market from seizing up, by giving support to workers to potentially reallocate across occupations and sectors (OECD, 2020). The COVID-19 Skills watcher offers an original overview of the skills owned by workers among different sectors and it can help PES in two ways: suggesting the impact of the crisis on the skill needs to find possible solutions to re-integrate the labour force, and providing useful information to support intersectoral labour mobility to foster the recovery.
E-learning platforms can consult the COVID-19 Skills watcher to create education content on those skills that are most frequent in every sector, and plan a content strategy that gives relevance to those sectors less hit by the crisis.
International institutions have the opportunity to learn from an example of collaboration between different international bodies, based on open data availability.
Research bodies can use the COVID-19 Skills watcher to gather information concerning the distribution of skills among sectors, suggesting possible analysis based on data such as the frequency rate of skills and opportunities for intersectoral labour mobility. Moreover, the COVID-19 Skills watcher demonstrates that the ESCO dataset can be managed, combined with additional datasets and employed in various contexts to respond to research needs.
Learn more
Covid-19 Skills Watcher Technical Document
More information concerning the methodology employed, the policy context and the use cases is available here
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