...Mauro Caselli; Andrea Fracasso; Arianna Marcolin; Sergio Scicchitano Purpose This work analyses how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors moderate such relationship. Design/methodology/approach The study makes...

... Mincerian earnings equation based on Neuman and Weiss’s (1995) model using the EU-KLEMS international database for 15 sectors for the period from 1980 to 2005. The authors also test structural ruptures in earnings and human capital depreciation in the labor market per decade controlling by technological...

... a difference for any of the abovementioned concerns. Experts’ advice on what skills to develop thus only partially corresponds to the job characteristics currently associated with being less concerned about automation. Skills Job insecurity Technology Robots Computers With recent advances...

...Ludo Cuyvers; Philippe De Lombaerde; Glenn Rayp; Michel Dumont; Nikolina Stojanovska; Ludo Cuyvers Purpose The paper aims to assess to what extent the general trends with regard to world inequality can be explained by rising international economic integration, technological change and (labour...

...Terence Hogarth Jonathon   Michie and Angelo   Reati (Eds) . Employment, Technology and Economic Needs: Theory, Evidence and Public Policy . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar   1998 . 363pp. , ISBN: 185898680X   £65.00 © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Employment Growth...

...Wiemer Salverda Jordi   Gaul , Ed . Job Creation: The Role of Labor Market Institutions . Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar   1998 . xii + 204 pages , ISBN: 1‐85898‐789‐X   US$60.00 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> arket Technology Organizational...

... Education Policy research Skills Technology World Bank The outcomes of a policy study are, of course, shaped by the nature of the knowledge base on which it rests, and this knowledge base is in turn largely determined by the ways in which researchers conceptualize and carry out their task. While...

... Engineering The Netherlands Productivity Qualifications Skills Technology United Kingdom Vocational training The impact of this highly organized system of full‐time vocational education in The Netherlands is clearly observable in international comparisons of workforce qualification levels...