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13 January 2025
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No. 228

Exploring the Thai Job Market Through the Lens of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Abstract

In recent decades, the Beveridge curve, which demonstrates a relationship between unemployment and vacancies, has emerged as a central organizing framework for understanding of labour markets – both for academic as well as central banks. The absence of consistent of the data in Thailand is a fundamental drawback in the utilisation of this important indicator. Data from online job platforms presents an alternative opportunity. However, the first and necessary step is to develop a process that can structure and standardise such data. In this paper, we develop an algorithm that standardise the high-frequency data from job websites, which consists of manually written job titles from major online job posting websites in Thailand (in Thai and English languages) into the International Standard Classification of Occupations codes (ISCO-2008), up to 4-digit level. With Natural Language Processing and machine learning techniques, our methodology automates the process to efficiently deal with the volume and velocity nature of the data. Our approach not only carves a new path for comprehending labour market trends, but also enhances the capacity for monitoring labour market behaviours with higher precision and timeliness. Most of all, it offers a pivotal shift towards leveraging real-time, rich online job postings.

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JEL: J2J3E24N35
Tags: labour marketbeveridge curveonline job platformmachine learningnatural language processingtext classificationthailand
The views expressed in this workshop do not necessarily reflect the views of the Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research or the Bank of Thailand.
Nuttapol Lertmethaphat
Nuttapol Lertmethaphat
Bank of Thailand
Nuarpear Lekfuangfu
Nuarpear Lekfuangfu
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pucktada Treeratpituk
Pucktada Treeratpituk
Bank of Thailand

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