Academic profile

Jeisson Cárdenas-Rubio is a labour economist who joined IER as a Research Fellow in January 2020, after recently completing his PhD at Warwick University. Prior to his PhD studies, he was employed as a senior consultant, including for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) and the Ministry of Labour in Colombia, on topics related to skills and occupational change, Big Data and public policy design. His doctoral research investigated to what extent a web-based model of skill mismatches can be developed for countries where the information regarding the labour market is relatively scarce. Jeisson's current research interests focus on analysing Big Data sources and development of labour market information for career guidance, skill shortages identification and labour market forecasting. His interests in these areas span local, national and international aspects.

Current projects

• Developing a Skills Taxonomy; with Peter Elias, Andy Dickerson, Neil Bachelor, Luke Bosworth, Rosie Day, Stef Poole and Lynne Marston; Funded by the Department for Education; Project duration: March 2024 - March 2026
• HE bridges 5.0 - Bridging risks to an inclusive digital and green future by enhancing workforce skills for industry 5.0, with Chris Warhurst and Peter Dickinson, Funder: European Commission, Project Duration: June 2022 - May 2026
• Labour market information report; Funded by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority; with Peter Dickinson, Chris Warhurst and Terence Hogarth; Project Duration: March 2022 - March 2023
• LMI for All, 2018-2024;Link opens in a new window With Sally-Anne Barnes, Jenny Bimrose, Rob Wilson, David Owen, Terence Hogarth, and Daria Luchinskaya, Luke Bosworth and Rosie Day from IER, and Pontydysgu. Funded by Department for Education. Project duration 2018 - 2024

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Selected publications

• Cardenas Rubio, J., Harris, J., Warhurst, C., Day, R., and Bosworth, L. (2023). Green and Hydrogen Jobs in the Midlands. Midlands Engine.
• Barnes, S-A., Hogarth, T., Wright, S., Baldauf, B. and Cárdenas Rubio, J. with Ragnarsdottir, H. and Elmezraoui, W. (2023). Labour market information and an assessment of its applications: a series of international case studies. London: Department for Education.
• Dickinson, P., Cardenas-Rubio, J., and Warhurst, C. (2022). Green Jobs and the Green Economy in York. IER, Coventry.
• Cardenas Rubio, J., Warhurst, C and Anderson, P. (2022). Green Jobs in Scotland: An inclusive approach to definition, measurement and analysis. Skills Development Scotland.
• Wilson, R., Hillary, J., Bosworth, D., Bosworth, L., Cardenas-Rubio, J., Day, R., Patel, S., Bui, H., Lin, X., Seymour, D. and Thoung, C. (2022). The Skills Imperative 2035: Occupational Outlook Long-run employment prospects for the UK.- Headline Report. Slough: NFER.
• Wilson, R., Bosworth, D., Bosworth, L., Cardenas-Rubio, J., Day, R., Patel, S., Bui, H., Lin, X., Seymour, D., and Thoung, C., (2022). The Skills Imperative 2035: Occupational Outlook - Long-run employment prospects for the UK, Baseline Projections. Working Paper 2a. Slough: NFER
• Wilson, R., Bosworth, D., Bosworth, L., Cardenas-Rubio, J., Day, R., Patel, S., Bui, H., Lin, X., Seymour, D., and Thoung, C., (2022). The Skills Imperative 2035: Occupational Outlook - Long-run employment prospects for the UK, Alternative scenarios. Working Paper 2b. Slough: NFER
• Wilson, R., Bosworth, D., Bosworth, L., Cardenas-Rubio, J., Day, R., Patel, S., Thoung, C., and Bui, H., (2022). The Skills Imperative 2035: Occupational Outlook - Long-run employment prospects for the UK. Working Paper 2c: Technical report on sources and methods. Slough: NFER
• Cardenas-Rubio, J. (2021). Classifying vacancy data at 6-digit level SOC 2020: A feasibility study. Coventry, University of Warwick.
• Hogarth, T. and Cardenas Rubio, J. (2021). The R&D Pipeline. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. BEIS Research Paper Number: 2021/22
• Barnes, S-A., Hogarth, T., Cárdenas-Rubio, J., Wright, S., Hawthorne, M., Bosworth, D., & Bosworth, L. (2021). Strategic, Accessible Labour Market Intelligence: Labour market demand and supply of skills (Report 1). IER
  University of Warwick/Skills Development Scotland.
• Bosworth, D. with Hogarth, T., Cárdenas-Rubio, J., Barnes, S-A., Wright, S., & Bosworth, L. (2021). Strategic, Accessible Labour Market Intelligence: Performance of the labour market (Report 2). IER University of Warwick/Skills Development Scotland.
• Barnes, S-A., Bosworth, L., Wright, S., Hawthorne, M., Hogarth, T., Cárdenas Rubio, J. & Bosworth, D. (2021). Strategic, Accessible Labour Market Intelligence: Digital platform (Report 3). IER University of Warwick/Skills Development Scotland.
• Barnes, S-A., Bimrose, J., Cárdenas Rubio, J., Wilson, R., Owen, D., Hogarth, T., Bosworth, L., Day, R., Attwell, G., & Rustemeier, P. (2021). Enhancing a labour market information database: LMI for All Stakeholder Engagement and Usage, Data and Technical Developments (2019-2020)(Research report RR1096). London: Department for Education.
• Dickinson, P., Hogarth, T. and Cardenas Rubio, J. (2020). How Employers Set Pay For Apprentices. Low Pay Commission. Coventry: University of Warwick
• Cárdenas (2020). “A web-based approach to measure skill mismatches and skills profiles for a developing country: the case of Colombia”. Bogotá; D. C.: Editorial Universidad del Rosario. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1g6q8dv. Download.
• Cárdenas, Guataquí and Montaña (2015) “The issue of labour demand analysis in Colombia”. Perfil
  de Coyuntura Económica. Perfil de Coyuntura Económica, Universidad de Antioquia - CIE, issue 24,
  pages 71-107, October. Download.
• Cárdenas, Guataquí and Montaña (2015) “Methodology for analysing labour demand using data from
  internet: The Colombian case”. Revista de Economía del Rosario, 18(01), 93-126. Download.
• Harvard University Press Release, "The worrisome deficit of technicians and technologists in Colombia"
  Detailing research by Eduardo Lora contributed to reporting Jeisson Arley Cardenas Rubio and Jaime
  Mauricio Montaña. Published online 2015. See.
• Cárdenas, Chaux and Otero (2018). “The usage of internet data to analyse housing prices in
  Colombia”. Revista de Economía del Rosario, [S.l.], v. 22, n. 1, p. 25, apr. 2019. ISSN 2145-454X.
  [online] Available at: Download. [Accessed: 02 jun. 2019].
• Cárdenas and Otero (2018). “Building a database for the real estate sector in Guatemala with an
  application in the analysis of hedonic prices”. Central Bank Guatemala. [online] Available at:
  Download [Accessed: 02 jun. 2019].
• Cárdenas, J., Gutiérrez, L. H., & Otero, J. (2017). Investigating diesel market integration in France:
  Evidence from microdata. Energy Economics, 63, 314-321. Download.

All publication

Working papers

Cárdenas (2020). “Possible uses of labour demand and supply information to reduce skill mismatches”. Colombia Científica. [online] Available at: Download [Accessed: 02 Mar. 2020].

Cárdenas (2020). “Information Problem in Labour Market and Big Data: Colombian Case”. Colombia Científica. [online] Available at: Download [Accessed: 02 Mar. 2020].

Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Employment Research
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

Tel: +44(0)24 76 151027
Jeisson dot cardenas-rubio at warwick dot ac dot uk