Terence Hogarth, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick June 2023 Skills and skills mismatches Providing information on careers depends upon being able to indicate those skills that are in relatively high or low demand in the labour market. The analysis of skill mismatches delivers information of relevance. What is a skills mismatch? One might […] Read more

How do you use LMI for All? Do you use our widgets? Have you built LMI for All data into a website or tool? Which data sets do you think are the most important? What could we be doing better? What do services would you like us to launch? Regardless of whether you are a […] Read more

LMI for All has released a new dataset through the open API. This allow developers to integrate course searches in to their website and applications. Courses is based on the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) course directory (comprising three datasets: courses with venues, providers, and regions). This directory, released under the Open Government License, […] Read more

Blog by Professor Jenny Bimrose, Institute for Employment Research     Most of us need paid work to earn the money we need to survive. As well as earning money, many of us enjoy those jobs (or at least parts of them). That is certainly a common (though not universal) aspiration – that we should […] Read more

As part of extending the data available in LMI for All, the team at IER is currently piloting a new web scraping technique to collect UK vacancy data. LMI for All brings together different sources of labour market data, but a complete and reliable vacancy dataset has been difficult to find.  Over the last few […] Read more