From Clicks To Careers: What Ukraine's Most Popular Job Search Website Reveals About Regional Employment Patterns

The ability to accurately and timely forecast labour market outcomes is essential for effective economic policymaking. However, the ongoing war in Ukraine has significantly limited the ability of statistical bodies to conduct traditional labour market surveys on the regional level. The polling conducted by the State Statistics Service as part of the labour market survey has been suspended for the unforeseen period. This has created a need for alternative methods of nowcasting labour market outcomes. Web-scraping techniques offer a promising approach to nowcasting labour market outcomes in Ukraine. By studying data from employment websites, such as