Immigrants across Europe earn less and work in lower-quality jobs than natives, but the mechanisms underlying these disparities remain poorly understood. This paper asks whether immigrant disadvantage reflects barriers to accessing good jobs or skill deficits that persist even within similar...

Purpose - Following a task-based framework, this paper investigatesthe impact of technology on occupational employment in Egypt (1998-2018) by examining the employment implications of the Routine-biased Technological Change (RBTC) hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach - The study estimates...

This paper develops a task-adjusted, country-specific measure of workers' exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) across 108 countries. Building on Felten et al. (2021), we adapt the artificial intelligence occupational exposure (AIOE) index to worker-level data from the Programme for the...

New digital and artificial intelligence technologies are fast reshaping skill requirements in the EU labour market, fostering skill mismatches. There are marked concerns about the potentially adverse consequences of automation and AI on employment, as well as the lagging competitiveness of EU...

This report, funded by the Health Service Executive (HSE), uses the Economic and Social Research Institute's (ESRI) Hippocrates model to project regional workforce requirements to 2040 for a selection of staff providing HSE primary and community care services. The professions and grades under...

There is growing evidence that green jobs have higher skill requirements, but whether they offer sufficient wage incentives to encourage workers to acquire those skills remains unclear. We study the green wage premium and its drivers to isolate the average return to green tasks using online job...

Die KOFA-Studie "Quereinstiege als Erfolgsmodell? Erfahrungen von Unternehmen" zeigt auf Grundlage einer repräsentativen Unternehmensbefragung, wie verbreitet sie bereits sind und welche Erfahrungen Betriebe damit machen. Für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) ist das besonders relevant,...