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Assessment of work skills is essential for today鈥檚 labour market
Gianni Anelli鈥檚 research article ' discusses the relevance of data from online job portals. Using two skills dictionaries, the ESCO dictionary and a national labour market dictionary, this study extracted required skills from Chilean online job advertisements. The study found enhanced results when applying the latter dictionary method and so concludes its incorporation into labour market information systems, and online job portals, would enable better decision making by the various actors in the labour market.