AEAI Presenting at Google DeepMind / ESRC Conference

The Conference

Applied Economics is presenting at the 2024 Google DeepMind and ESRC joint conference on "AI for Economic Measurement," held at the Google DeepMind offices in London. The conference brings together researchers from academia, government statistical agencies, and the private sector to examine how artificial intelligence and large-scale data can improve economic measurement.

Our Presentations

We are presenting three pieces of work at this year's conference.

Real-Time Labour Market Indicators from Job Postings

Our lead presentation covers the methodology behind AIPNET, our flagship job postings analytics platform. The talk demonstrates how natural language processing applied to 250 million online job advertisements can produce labour market indicators that are more timely, more granular, and in many cases more accurate than traditional survey-based statistics.

The presentation includes a live comparison of AIPNET's occupational demand indices against the Office for National Statistics' Labour Force Survey, showing that our indicators lead official statistics by approximately 45 days.

Measuring the AI Skills Transition

Our second presentation focuses on a new research project tracking the adoption of AI-related skills across the UK economy. Using AIPNET data, we have constructed a taxonomy of 847 AI-adjacent skills and tracked their prevalence in job postings from 2018 to 2024. The data reveals sharp sectoral differences in AI adoption rates, with financial services and technology leading, and construction and hospitality significantly behind.

Administrative Data Linkage for Policy Evaluation

Our third presentation, delivered in collaboration with a UK government department, demonstrates a privacy-preserving methodology for linking administrative datasets across agencies. The approach uses secure multi-party computation to enable cross-departmental analysis without any single party having access to the combined individual-level data.

Why Conferences Matter

Academic and policy conferences are where research becomes practice. The connections formed at events like this one lead directly to new data partnerships, research collaborations, and — most importantly — better policy decisions informed by better data.

We will publish detailed summaries of each presentation in the coming weeks.