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Changes in Occupational Skills - A Case Study Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization

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Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2015)

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Changes in the skill requirements of occupations can alter the balance in the numbers of high, middle and low-skilled jobs on the market. This can result in structural unemployment, stagnating income and other unforeseen social and economic side effects. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a recent matrix factorization technique for extracting the underlying skill categories from O*NET, a publicly available database on occupational skill requirements. This study builds upon earlier work which also focused on this database, and which indicated that changes in skill requirements were in response to increased automation which unevenly affected different segments of the job market. In this paper we refine the methodological underpinnings of the earlier work and report some preliminary results which already show great promise.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology for supporting this research.

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  1. Institute Center for Smart and Sustainable Systems, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Wei Lee Woon, Zeyar Aung, Wala AlKhader, Davor Svetinovic & Mohammad Atif Omar

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  1. University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

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  3. Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Weng Kin Lai

  4. University of Science Technology, Wuhan, China

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Woon, W.L., Aung, Z., AlKhader, W., Svetinovic, D., Omar, M.A. (2015). Changes in Occupational Skills - A Case Study Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization. In: Arik, S., Huang, T., Lai, W., Liu, Q. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9491. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26555-1_71

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