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Digital technologies, employment and skills

Reljic, Jelena; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Pianta, Mario - 2019

The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article considering six major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and 42 manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We...

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Threats and opportunities in the digital era : automation spikes and employment dynamics

Domini, Giacomo; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2019

This paper investigates how investment in automation-intensive goods impacts on worker flows at the firm level and …, their imports, and employer-employee data for French manufacturing employers over 2002-2015, we identify "automation spikes …" using imports of intermediates embedding automation technologies and then test their impact on employment dynamics. We find …

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Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing and emerging economies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Mandelman, Federico S. - 2019

We document a strong negative link between self-employment and the rate of digital adoption by firms in developing and emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we build a general equilibrium search-and-matching...

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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work

Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018

As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning …

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Determinants of automation risk in the EU labour market : a skills-needs approach

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2018

survey (ESJS), jobs are bundled according to their estimated risk of automation. The paper builds on the methodology of … very high risk of automation. The distribution of high automatability across industries and occupations is also found to be …

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Worker personality : another skill bias beyond education in the digital age

Bode, Eckhardt; Brunow, Stephan; Ott, Ingrid; Sorgner, Alina - 2016

direction of technological change by estimated future digitalization probabilities of occupations, and noncognitive skills by … digitalization. Traditional indicators of human capital thus measure workers' skill endowments only imperfectly. …

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Technological change and the upskilling of European workers

McGuinness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2025

Using the second wave of the European Skills and Jobs survey, this paper measures the relationship between technological change that automates or augments workers’ job tasks and their participation in work-related training. We find that 58 per cent of European employees experienced no change...

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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2019

developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are "at risk of automation", spurring public fears of massive job-losses and …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased … digitalization is likely to affect the German labor market in the next five years and derives implications for policy makers on how …

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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...

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Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia

Azzopardi, Damien; Lenain, Patrick; Molnár, Margit; … - 2020

Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...

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