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...

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...

Das ifo Institut befragt im Auftrag von Randstad Deutschland deutsche HR-Abteilungen quartalsweise zu personalpolitisch relevanten Themen. Mit wechselnden Sonderfragen werden aktuelle arbeitsmarktrelevante Fragestellungen untersucht – im vierten Quartal betraf dies das Thema Ausbildung. Bei...

Angesichts der weitreichenden Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf den Arbeitsmarkt steht die Politik inzwischen vor der grundlegenden Herausforderung, ihre unterschiedlichen Ziele und Maßnahmen stets auch unter dem Gesichtspunkt der allgemeinen Arbeitskräfteverknappung zu betrachten....

It is well established that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses, but the reasons for these long-term losses remain unclear. A leading theory ties earnings losses to the demand laid-off workers face for their industry-specific human capital, yet evidence in support of...

Das Working Paper beleuchtet Lage und Trends am Arbeitsmarkt in drei Kernbranchen der IGBCE: Chemie, Pharmazie und Kunststoff produzierende Industrie. Obwohl in den wichtigsten Berufen dieser drei Branchen am Arbeitsmarkt deutliche Engpässe auftreten, führen Transformationsprozesse und...

Firm training is key to meeting changing skill demands, yet little is known about the role of workers' beliefs in shaping training participation. In a survey of 3,701 workers in Germany, we document that they expect substantial returns to firm training - both in terms of earnings and...

The objective of this policy note is to provide an overview of the status of digital skills in Nigeria from a comparative perspective and understand how prepared educational institutions are to help develop the digital skills of the population. First, the note summarizes the status of access to...

This paper validates a new set of behavioral measures for socioemotional skills across three Sub-Saharan African countries-Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Tanzania-and compares them to widely used self-reported measures. The behavioral measures demonstrate strong psychometric properties and are...

Identifying sensitive periods in which the returns to investments into skills are especially high is challenging, but crucial for an effective and efficient timing of parental or public investments aimed at fostering children's skills. We can detect sensitive periods with a novel design by...

As artificial intelligence (AI) and automation continue to reshape industries, concerns about technological unemployment are intensifying. This study employs a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) guided by the PRISMA framework to examine peer-reviewed literature from the Scopus database...

This paper examines the evolution and determinants of skill-specific internal mobility among Italian citizens by urban-rural origin. Using administrative data from the Registry of Transfer of Residence (ADELE), which records the universe of skill-specific bilateral moves across more than 700...

This paper examines the role of human capital in driving labour productivity growth across industries in the EU and the UK from 2010 to 2021. Building on Egert ' et al. (2022), we introduce a novel quality-adjusted human capital (QAHC) measure that combines both the quantity and quality of...

We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that firms systematically underestimate automatability. Information provision raises risk...

We study the effect of a randomized one-on-one remote phone tutoring program implemented between 2021 and 2023. The intervention reached more than seven thousand students in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. The program targeted...

Skill transferability is essential for occupational mobility and adapting to external shocks, yet detailed data on workers’ skills is often scarce and costly to collect, specially in developing countries. This paper explores whether the American O*NET database, one of the most popular...

We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that firms systematically underestimate automatability. Information provision raises risk...

Most studies on the labor market effects of immigration use repeated cross-sectional data to estimate the effects of immigration on regions. This paper shows that such regional effects are composites of effects that address fundamental questions in the immigration debate but remain unidentified...

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 PIAAC data and extend it globally...

Context: Unlike education policy for general education, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policy often focuses on societal needs, ignoring the attitudes and subsequent behaviors of learners. As a result, the impact of TVET policies is not what was expected and sometimes even...

This study examines the current performance and future challenges of EU funding in the areas of employment, skills, and social inclusion-focusing on the ESF+, the EGF, and InvestEU's Social Investment and Skills Window (SISW). Based on desk research, stakeholder interviews, an online survey, and...

This report consolidates insights from the first thematic strand of the Community for Educational Innovation (CEI), 'Entrepreneurial skills and mindsets in education.' Information was collected through webinars, calls for good practices, polls, and interviews with CEI members. It aims to examine...

This report consolidates insights from the first thematic strand of the Community for Educational Innovation (CEI), 'Entrepreneurial skills and mindsets in education.' Information was collected through webinars, calls for good practices, polls, and interviews with CEI members. It aims to examine...

The aim of this ECE Thematic Review and of the present synthesis report is to review the most recent data and expert knowledge on the phenomenon of people of working age outside the labour force, to understand drivers for not being in the labour force, and thus for being neither employed nor...

This paper examines the evolution and determinants of skill-specific internal mobility among Italian citizens by urban-rural origin. Using administrative data from the Registry of Transfer of Residence (ADELE), which records the universe of skill-specific bilateral moves across more than 700...