Digitale Arbeitswelt – Chancen und Herausforderungen für Beschäftigte und Arbeitsmarkt
Der digitale Wandel der Arbeitswelt gilt als eine der großen Herausforderungen für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Wie arbeiten wir in Zukunft? Welche Auswirkungen hat die Digitalisierung auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitsmarkt? Welche Qualifikationen werden künftig benötigt? Wie verändern sich Tätigkeiten und Berufe?
Diese Infoplattform dokumentiert Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema Arbeit 4.0 in den verschiedenen Wirtschaftsbereichen.
- Forschung und Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
- Gesamtbetrachtungen/Positionen
- Arbeitsformen, Arbeitszeit und Gesundheit
- Qualifikationsanforderungen und Berufe
- Arbeitsplatz- und Beschäftigungseffekte
- Wirtschaftsbereiche
- Arbeits- und sozialrechtliche Aspekte
- Bundesländer
- andere Länder/ internationaler Vergleich
- Besondere Personengruppen
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Are they coming for us? Industrial robots and the mental health of workers (2024)
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Abeliansky, Ana Lucia, Matthias Beulmann & Klaus Prettner (2024): Are they coming for us? Industrial robots and the mental health of workers. In: Research Policy, Jg. 53, H. 3. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2024.104956
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"How does the increasing use of robots affect the mental health of workers? To investigate this question, we combine individual mental health data from the German Socioeconomic Panel with data on the stock of robots in 14 manufacturing sectors provided by the International Federation of Robotics for the period 2002–2018. Using mediation analysis andan instrumental variable approach, we find that higher robot intensity is associated with deteriorating mental health, an effect that is mainly driven by worries about job security and a lower sense of achievement on the job. A heterogeneity analysis reveals that higher robot intensity has particularly severe negative effects on the mental health of workers close to retirement, in low-skilled occupations and performing routine jobs. Women and men are affected similarly, as are workers of all educational levels. Our results indicate the presence of hidden (health) costs of automation that policymakers need to address." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Organisational inhibition and promotion of flexible working in digitalised work environments (2024)
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Abendroth, Anja-Kristin & Mareike Reimann (2024): Organisational inhibition and promotion of flexible working in digitalised work environments. In: New Technology, Work and Employment, Jg. 39, H. 1, S. 39-62. DOI:10.1111/ntwe.12275
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"Work-related use of digital information and communication technology (ICT) is not restricted to specific working sites and times. For employees, this can involve opportunities for flexible working, that is, having control over when and where to work. Applying an organisational comparative perspective, we examined whether adherence to the ideal worker norm inhibits and adherence to family-friendliness promotes flexible working as a consequence of ICT use. Linked employer–employee survey data from large German work organisations revealed that employees worked more flexibly in time and place due to work-related ICT use when supervisory work-life support was common. Mixed evidence is provided for the prevalence of ideal worker norm expectations. We conclude that work-life support in the organisation is a required complementary practice of flexible working for employees, promoting its dissemination." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms (2024)
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Alacovska, Ana, Eliane Bucher & Christian Fieseler (2024): A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 38, H. 1, S. 161-179. DOI:10.1177/09500170221103146
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"Based on interviews with 49 visual artists, graphic designers and illustrators working on two leading global digital labour platforms, this article examines how creative workers perform relational work as a means of attenuating labour commodification, precarity, and algorithmic normativity. The article argues that creative work on online labour platforms, rather than being entirely controlled by depersonalised, anonymised and algorithm-driven labour market forces, is also infused in relational infrastructures whose upkeep, solidity and durability depends on the emotional efforts undertaken by workers to match economic transactions and their media of exchange to meaningful client relations. By applying a relational work perspective from economic sociology to the study of platform-mediated gig work, the article elucidates the micro-foundations of creative work in the digital gig economy, including how labour inequalities are produced and reproduced within and around micro-level interpersonal interactions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe (2024)
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Albinowski, Maciej & Piotr Lewandowski (2024): The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 87. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102481
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"We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots. Our sample includes 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. We use the variation in technology adoption between industries and apply the instrumental variables strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020) to identify the causal effects of technology adoption. We find that exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young and prime-aged women in employment and in the wage bills of particular sectors. However, it reduced the shares of older women and prime-aged men. We do not detect significant effects of technology adoption on the relative wages of most demographic groups. Between 2010 and 2018, the growth in ICT capital played a larger role than robot adoption in the changes in the withinsector labor market outcomes of demographic groups." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, ©2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Digitale Teilhabe von Menschen mit einer geistigen Beeinträchtigung: Entwicklung einer Definition, eines Modells und eines Erhebungsinstruments (2024)
Albrecht, Joanna; Hüning, Nadine;Zitatform
Albrecht, Joanna & Nadine Hüning (2024): Digitale Teilhabe von Menschen mit einer geistigen Beeinträchtigung. Entwicklung einer Definition, eines Modells und eines Erhebungsinstruments. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, XXVIII, 526 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-44380-1
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"In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Entwicklung einer Definition, eines Modells und eines Erhebungsinstruments Digitaler Teilhabe von Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung beschrieben. Eine geistige Behinderung wird als Konstrukt verstanden, das durch die ganzheitliche Wechselwirkung zwischen personenbezogenen Faktoren, Gesundheitsproblemen sowie umweltbezogenen Barrieren entsteht. Für die Identifikation der Hilfebedarfe zur Realisierung von Teilhabe ist die ganzheitliche Betrachtung von heterogenen Ursachen, Formen und Ausprägungen unverzichtbar. Der Anspruch auf Teilhabe ist gesetzlich verankert, jedoch führt die digitale Transformation zu neuen gesellschaftlichen Ungleichheiten, die sich als Digital Divide manifestieren. Trotz geringer und heterogener Datenlage zu Ungleichheiten bei Menschen mit (geistiger) Beeinträchtigung sind bereits Hinweise auf eine Digital Disability Divide zu erkennen. Um dieses Forschungsdesiderat aufzuarbeiten, bedarf es eines einheitlichen Begriffsverständnisses Digitaler Teilhabe. Auch müssen Einflussfaktoren eruiert werden, um Ansätze zur Förderung Digitaler Teilhabe zu entwickeln und darauf aufbauend ein Erhebungsinstrument zu entwickeln. Entsprechend verfolgt diese Forschungsarbeit die Entwicklung einer Definition,eines Modells und Erhebungsinstruments Digitaler Teilhabe von Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung in der Eingliederungshilfe. Die Autorinnen Joanna Albrecht und Nadine Hüning haben an der Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften der Universität Bielefeld promoviert. ." (Verlagsangaben)
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit (2024)
Allmendinger, Jutta; Meubrink, Yuca; Neugebauer, Moritz;Zitatform
(2024): Die Zukunft der Arbeit. (Stellungnahme / Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Januar 2024), Halle, Saale ; Mainz, 124 S.
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"Unsere Arbeitswelt verändert sich stark. Digitalisierung und Automatisierung erlauben oft ortsungebundene Arbeit, die Abkehr von fossilen Brennstoffen zwingt uns zum Wirtschaften mit ökologisch nachhaltigen Energien und Technologien, demografischer Wandel und Einwanderung verändern unsere Gesellschaft grundlegend. Aus diesen Entwicklungen erwachsen Chancen und Risiken. Eine interdisziplinäre und interakademische Arbeitsgruppe widmet sich diesen in der Stellungnahme „Die Zukunft der Arbeit“. Die Arbeitsgruppe unter der Leitung von Frau Prof. Dr. h. c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D. (Präsidentin des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung, Mitglied der Leopoldina und der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) schlägt vor, Erwerbsarbeit in ihrem Wechselspiel mit anderen Formen des Tätigseins zu betrachten, den Begriff der Arbeit weit zu fassen und unterschiedlichste Formen menschlicher Tätigkeit und deren Zusammenspiel in den Blick zu nehmen. Gesellschaftlicher Wohlstand, individuelles Wohlergehen und sozialer Zusammenhalt beruhen wesentlich auf Erwerbsarbeit. Gleichzeitig bedarf es zahlreicher anderer Tätigkeitsformen, um menschliche Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen, Fähigkeiten zu entwickeln und gesellschaftliche Arbeit zu leisten. Diese erweiterte Sicht auf Arbeit rückt menschliche Potenziale und ein neu auszubalancierendes Verhältnis zwischen sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Erfordernissen in den Mittelpunkt. Mit dem Begriff der „Tätigkeitsgesellschaft“ wird eine Perspektiverweiterung auf das Verständnis von Arbeit vorgeschlagen, bei der neben klassischer Erwerbstätigkeit auch all jene Beschäftigungen berücksichtigt werden, die einen konkreten gesellschaftlichen Nutzen erbringen, wie beispielsweise Sorgearbeit oder auch ehrenamtliche Arbeit. Diese ganz unterschiedlichen Formen von Arbeit sind eng miteinander verbunden und bedingen einander." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Coping with Industry 5.0: An Assessment of Evolving Soft Skills for the Workplace (2024)
Armstrong, Ryan; Torres Vergara, Carlos Javier;Zitatform
Armstrong, Ryan & Carlos Javier Torres Vergara (2024): Coping with Industry 5.0: An Assessment of Evolving Soft Skills for the Workplace. In: S. Nousala, G. Metcalf & D. Ing (Hrsg.): Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: Explorations in the Transition from a Techno-economic to a Socio-technical Future (2024), Singapore, Springer Nature Singapore S. 57-78. DOI:10.1007/978-981-99-9730-5_3
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"It has been suggested that the transition to the sustainable, resilient, and human-centered production of Industry 5.0 will require a new or enhanced set of soft skills for the workplace, an appealing suggestion but one with only incipient evidence. Meanwhile, major practitioner reports, policy documents, and scholarly work emphasize a need for soft skills, and employers increasingly signal their desire for candidates to possess them. In this chapter, we examine the drivers of a need for more soft skills, and the challenges in research and practice to supporting their acquisition. We identify widespread misconceptions about soft skills, which could ultimately limit their potential for supporting individual and societal well-being. We review the term’s history and foundation, which reveals anumber of inherent challenges related to defining, recognizing, and evaluating soft skills. We then illustrate how these can be acknowledged and even embraced through an example of soft skill training from our own work. Finally, we discuss implications for researchers and practitioners." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization (2024)
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Arntz, Melanie, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer & Oliver Schlenker (2024): Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization. (CEP discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance 1984), London, 52 S.
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"This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers' health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011 and 2019, we find that digitalization induces similar shifts into more complex and service-oriented tasks across all workers but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower manual workers' subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence that the effects are mitigated in firms that provide training and assistance in the adjustment process for workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence (2024)
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Arntz, Melanie, Sabrina Genz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer & Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (2024): De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16740), Bonn, 65 S.
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"This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find that adopters of frontier technologies contribute substantially to deroutinization. However, this is driven only by a subset of these firms: large adopters replace routine jobs and less routine-intensive adopters experience faster growth. These scale and composition effects reflect firms' readiness to adopt and implement frontier technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and an increase in between-firm heterogeneity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Lehmer, Florian;Weiterführende Informationen
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Does Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Gender Diversity? Evidence from Two Field Experiments on Recruitment in Tech (2024)
Avery, Mallory; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph;Zitatform
Avery, Mallory, Andreas Leibbrandt & Joseph Vecci (2024): Does Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Gender Diversity? Evidence from Two Field Experiments on Recruitment in Tech. (CESifo working paper 10996), München, 70 S.
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"The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than doubling the fraction of top applicants that are women. This change is generated by better outcomes for women in both supply and demand. On the supply side, we observe that the use of AI reduces the gender gap in application completion rates. Complementary survey evidence suggests that anticipated bias is a driver of increased female application completion when assessed by AI instead of human evaluators. On the demand side, we find that providing evaluators with applicants' AI scores closes the gender gap in assessments that otherwise disadvantage female applicants. Finally, we show that the AI tool would have to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States (2024)
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Baber, Ashley (2024): Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 38, H. 3, S. 723-743. DOI:10.1177/09500170221150087
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"Gig work – accessing job opportunities through an app – has brought renewed attention to precarious non-standard labour arrangements. Scholars have begun to consider the intermediary role that platforms such as Uber, Lyft and Doordash play in exploiting and controlling workers. Yet, literature on labour market intermediaries has muddied conceptions of their role, impact and outcomes for workers by lumping a variety of institutions under the same umbrella term. Drawing from previous theoretical and empirical works throughout the temporary help and gig industries, this article proposes a reconceptualisation of labour market intermediaries as labour market engineers highlighting four mutually reinforcing features. This sociological reconceptualisation updates the understanding of for-profit labour market intermediaries by demonstrating the market making behaviours of firms of on-demand labour in the US context. Likewise, this reconceptualisation notes how gig firms have adapted and expanded these features in ways that increase precarity for workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Which Migrant Jobs are Linked with the Adoption of Novel Technologies, Robotization, and Digitalization? (2024)
Barišić, Antea; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert;Zitatform
Barišić, Antea, Mahdi Ghodsi & Robert Stehrer (2024): Which Migrant Jobs are Linked with the Adoption of Novel Technologies, Robotization, and Digitalization? (WIIW working paper 241), Wien, 66 S.
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"In recent decades, the development of novel technologies has intenzified due to globalization, prompting countries to enhance competitiveness through innovation. These technologies have significantly improved global welfare, particularly in sectors like healthcare, where they have facilitated tasks and boosted productivity, for example playing a crucial role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. However, certain technologies, such as robots, can negatively impact employment by replacing workers and tasks. Additionally, the emergence of artificial intelligence as digital assets not only replaces specific tasks but also introduces complexities that may displace employees who are unable to adapt. While the existing literature extensively explores the heterogeneous effects of these technologies on labor markets, studies of their impact on migrant workers remain scarce. This paper presents pioneering evidence on the effects of various novel technologies on migrant employment in the European Union. The analysis covers 18 EU member states from 2005 to 2019 focusing on the impact of novel innovations, robot adoption, three types of digital assets, and total factor productivity, on migrant employment. The key findings reveal that innovations measured by the number of granted patents increase both the number and proportion of migrant workers relative to the overall workforce. While robots do replace jobs, their impact on native workers surpasses that of migrant workers, resulting in a higher share of migrant workers following robot adoption. Total factor productivity positively influences migrant workers, while the effects of digital assets are heterogeneous. Moreover, the impacts of these technologies on migrant workers vary significantly across different occupation types and educational levels." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health (2024)
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Blasco, Sylvie, Julie Rochut & Benedicte Rouland (2024): Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health. In: Industrial Relations online erschienen am 04.01.2024. DOI:10.1111/irel.12356
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"Automation may destroy jobs and change the labor demand structure, thereby potentially impacting workers' mental health. Implementing propensity score matching on French individual survey data, we find that working in an automatable job is associated with a 3 pp increase in the probability of suffering from mental disorders. Fear of automation through fear of job loss, expectation of a required change in skills, and fear of unwanted job mobility seem to be relevant channels to explain the findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Challenges for Inclusive Organizational Behavior (IOB) in Terms of Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities by Enhancing Remote Working (2024)
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Bożena, Frączek (2024): Challenges for Inclusive Organizational Behavior (IOB) in Terms of Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities by Enhancing Remote Working. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 171, H. 3, S. 1019-1041. DOI:10.1007/s11205-023-03290-8
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"People with disabilities are at a higher risk of loss of work, salary, independence, and thus economic self-sufficiency. The research focuses on the possibilities of implementing the inclusive organizational behavior (IOB) concept in terms of increasing employment of people with disabilities by increasing the scope of remote working for people from this group. The research concerns two aspects related to the challenges for IOB in this area: examining the factors on the side of the employee with special emphasis on features that are important from the perspective of performing remote work, and showing the significance and importance of IOB as an element for narrowing the disability employment gap (DEG) and increasing the inclusion of people with disabilities through their employment (including remote employment). The study uses a macroeconomic approach and was carried out on a macro scale using aggregated data for European Union countries. The regression analysis method (multiple linear regression) was used in the research. The results of the research confirmed the different predictors (in the group of examined factors) of the employment rate in groups of persons with and without a disability. In the first stage of the research, significant predictor was found for the employment rate among the group of factors on the side of the employee that influence the remote work of people with a disability—this was the basic or above basic overall digital skills. However, in the group of people without a disability the predictor was found to be the level of education. Expanding the set of previous factors to the disability employment gap in the second stage of the research changed the significant predictor of the employment rate in the group of people with a disability, but did not change the predictor in the group of people without a disability. In the second stage, the significant predictor of the employment rate proved to be the disability employment gap (among others influenced by inclusive organizational behavior) in the case of people with a disability, and—similarly to the first stage – level of education in the case of people without a disability." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Kompetenzbarometer: Fachkräftesituation in Digitalisierungsberufen – Beschäftigungsaufbau und Fachkräftemangel bis 2027: Studie im Projekt (Nr. 3/19) „Entwicklung und Messung der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft am Standort Deutschland“ im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK) (2024)
Burstedde, Alexander; Tiedemann, Jurek;Zitatform
Burstedde, Alexander & Jurek Tiedemann (2024): Kompetenzbarometer: Fachkräftesituation in Digitalisierungsberufen – Beschäftigungsaufbau und Fachkräftemangel bis 2027. Studie im Projekt (Nr. 3/19) „Entwicklung und Messung der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft am Standort Deutschland“ im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK). (IW-Gutachten), Köln, 26 S.
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"Mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung der deutschen Wirtschaft geht eine steigende Nachfrage nach digitalen Kompetenzen und den diese umfassenden Berufen einher. Diese Studie misst zum einen, in welchem Umfang es der deutschen Wirtschaft bereits gelingt, Menschen mit digitalen Kompetenzprofilen einzustellen, und zum anderen, inwiefern es noch an qualifizierten Menschen mit digitalen Kompetenzen in den relevanten Kernberufen mangelt. Die Studie ist im Wesentlichen eine Aktualisierung der letzten Fortschreibung bis 2026 (Burstedde, 2023b), die unter Nutzung der Daten bis 2022 eine Fortschreibung bis zum Jahr 2027 vornimmt. Diese Studie definiert digitale Kompetenzen als solche, die benötigt werden, um neue digitale Schlüsseltechnologien herzustellen oder durch besondere technische Kenntnisse deren Nutzung und Verbreitung zu ermöglichen. Digitalisierungsberufe enthalten diese digitalen Kompetenzen. Sie sind für eine erfolgreiche Digitalisierung und die Wahrung der digitalen Souveränität von besonderer Relevanz. Für die Digitalisierungsberufe sind detaillierte Arbeitsmarktanalysen auf Basis der amtlichen Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit möglich. Diese Studie stellt die Entwicklung der Beschäftigtenzahlen sowie des Fachkräftemangels in den Digitalisierungsberufen dar. Die Analyse erfolgt – soweit datenseitig möglich – differenziert nach Qualifikationsniveau, Berufsgruppen, Ost- und Westdeutschland. Außerdem werden ausgewählte Einzelberufe analysiert." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Evidence on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence: The role of skills shortage (2024)
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Carioli, Paolo, Dirk Czarnitzki & Gastón P. Fernández (2024): Evidence on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence: The role of skills shortage. (ZEW discussion paper 24-013), Mannheim, 37 S.
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"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be the next general-purpose technology, with the potential of performing tasks commonly requiring human capabilities. While it is commonly feared that AI replaces labor and disrupts jobs, we instead investigate the potential of AI for overcoming increasingly alarming skills shortages in firms. We exploit unique German survey data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel on both the adoption of AI and the extent to which firms experience scarcity of skills. We measure skills shortage by the number of job vacancies that could not be filled as planned by firms, distinguishing among different types of skills. To account for the potential endogeneity of skills shortage, we also implement instrumental variable estimators. Overall, we find a positive and significant effect of skills shortage on AI adoption, the breadth of AI methods, and the breadth of areas of application of AI. In addition, we find evidence that scarcity of labor with academic education relates to firms exploring and adopting AI." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Künstliche Intelligenz und Gender - eine Frage diskursiver (Gegen-)Macht? (2024)
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Carstensen, Tanja & Kathrin Ganz (2024): Künstliche Intelligenz und Gender - eine Frage diskursiver (Gegen-)Macht? In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 77, H. 1, S. 26-33. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2024-1-26
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"Mit der Digitalisierung von Arbeit ist häufig die Frage verbunden, ob sich Geschlechterungleichheiten verändern. Aktuell wird dies vor allem mit Blick auf Künstliche Intelligenz (KI ) kontrovers diskutiert. Im betrieblichen Alltag gewinnt KI zunehmend an Relevanz ; in politischen, medialen und wissenschaftlichen Diskursen wird bereits seit einigen Jahren thematisiert, inwiefern KI aus Geschlechterperspektiven relevant ist. Dieser Beitrag untersucht diese Diskurse und widmet sich der Frage, inwiefern sich durch die Anwendung von KI -Technologien geschlechtliche Machtungleichheiten in der Arbeitswelt verändern und ob sich mit KI Ansatzpunkte für die Entwicklung von Gegenmacht erkennen lassen." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Digital Technologies and Firms' Employment and Training (2024)
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Caselli, Mauro, Edwin Fourrier-Nicolai, Andrea Fracasso & Sergio Scicchitano (2024): Digital Technologies and Firms' Employment and Training. (CESifo working paper 11056), München, 63 S.
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"This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms' employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical approach, constructing instrumental variables based on predetermined employment composition and global technological progress, proxied by patents. Findings indicate that IDT investment positively affects employment, favoring a skilled, IT-competent workforce, as supported by firms' training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total employment but skews the workforce towards temporary contracts. The study contributes methodologically by distinguishing between ODT and IDT and highlighting nuanced employment dynamics within firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Intellectualization and substitution elasticity of capital on the labour force in logistics enterprises: evidence from China and the United States (2024)
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Chen, Xi, Xiang Wen Cai, Xu Ding, Le Song & Cheng Chen (2024): Intellectualization and substitution elasticity of capital on the labour force in logistics enterprises: evidence from China and the United States. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 31, H. 5, S. 395-400. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2022.2136615
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"This paper addresses the substitution elasticity of capital on the labor force in the context of the development of intellectualization. Given the substitution of capital for labor, China's benchmark listed logistics companies are compared with an American company to discuss the evolution of capital - labor substitution. A large-scale intellectualization process began in 2017, and based on a variable elasticity of substitution, this paper creates an econometric model of substitution elasticity between capital and labor and its evolution between 2017 and 2021. The American logistics company UPS maintains a relatively high level of substitution elasticity, and Chinese logistics companies are quickly catching up. The substitution elasticity of capital on labor in Chinese enterprises trends upward year after year. In 2021, the capital - labor substitution elasticity of logistics enterprises in both countries showed considerable growth. The calculation model of substitution elasticity presented in this paper can be extended to different regions and industries to measure intelligent development levels and the relationship between capital and the labor force." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Who is Replaced by Robots? Robotization and the Risk of Unemployment for Different Types of Workers (2024)
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Damelang, Andreas & Michael Otto (2024): Who is Replaced by Robots? Robotization and the Risk of Unemployment for Different Types of Workers. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 181-206. DOI:10.1177/07308884231162953
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"We study the effects of robotization on unemployment risk for different types of workers. We examine the extent to which robotization increases inequality at the skill level and at the occupational level using two theoretical frameworks: skill-biased technological change and task-biased technological change. Empirically, we combine worker-level data with information on actual investments in industrial robots. Zooming in on the German manufacturing industry, our multivariate results show that robotization affects different types of workers differently. We do not observe an increase in unemployment risk for low- and medium-skilled, but we find a considerably lower unemployment risk among high-skilled workers. Moreover, the unemployment risk is significantly higher in occupations with highly substitutable tasks, but only in industries that invest largely in robots." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © SAGE) ((en))
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Wie bewältigen Regionen die digitale und ökologische Transformation von Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt? (Podium) (2024)
Dauth, Wolfgang ; Solms, Anna; Grienberger, Katharina; Lehmer, Florian; Moritz, Michael ; Müller, Steffen; Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Plümpe, Verena; Falck, Oliver ; Bauer, Anja ; Sonnenburg, Anja; Janser, Markus ; Schneemann, Christian; Diegmann, André ; Matthes, Britta; Solms, Anna;Zitatform
Dauth, Wolfgang, Michael Moritz, Katharina Grienberger, Florian Lehmer, Steffen Müller, Bernd Fitzenberger, Verena Plümpe, Oliver Falck, Anja Bauer, Anja Sonnenburg, Markus Janser, Christian Schneemann, André Diegmann, Britta Matthes & Anna Solms; Katharina Grienberger, Florian Lehmer, Steffen Müller, Bernd Fitzenberger, Verena Plümpe, Oliver Falck, Anja Bauer, Anja Sonnenburg, Markus Janser, Christian Schneemann, André Diegmann, Britta Matthes & Anna Solms (sonst. bet. Pers.) (2024): Wie bewältigen Regionen die digitale und ökologische Transformation von Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt? (Podium). In: IAB-Forum H. 06.05.2024. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240506.01
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"Was bedeuten die absehbaren Transformationsprozesse der kommenden Jahrzehnte auf regionaler Ebene und wie können sie gemeistert werden? Antworten auf diese Fragen gab der IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik, der in diesem Jahr erstmals am IAB in Nürnberg stattfand." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Dauth, Wolfgang ; Grienberger, Katharina; Lehmer, Florian; Moritz, Michael ; Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Bauer, Anja ; Janser, Markus ; Schneemann, Christian; Diegmann, André ; Matthes, Britta; -
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Neugestaltung der betrieblichen Weiterbildung in der digitalen Transformation (2024)
Dehnbostel, Peter;Zitatform
Dehnbostel, Peter (2024): Neugestaltung der betrieblichen Weiterbildung in der digitalen Transformation. In: Magazin Erwachsenenbildung.at H. 51, S. 64-73.
Abstract
"Die betriebliche Weiterbildung ist seit den 1980er Jahren stark gewachsen und hat sich zum größten Einzelbereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung entwickelt. Ihre aktuelle Entwicklung erfordert eine grundlegende Neugestaltung, die maßgeblich auf die digitale Transformation von Arbeit und Lernen zurückgeht und nach einem erweiterten Verständnis von beruflicher und betrieblicher Weiterbildung verlangt. Für die betriebliche Weiterbildung stehen nicht mehr die einschlägigen Angebote mit Kursen und Seminaren im Vordergrund, sondern der Kompetenzerwerb im Prozess der Arbeit selbst. Die digitale Transformation von Arbeit und Lernen zeigt sich insbesondere im arbeitsintegrierten Lernen, in neuen betrieblichen Lernkonzepten und Lernformen sowie in der Validierung von Kompetenzen, die Beschäftigte durch informelles und nicht-formales Lernen erwerben. Dies fördert die Durchlässigkeit beruflicher Bildungswege sowie die Gleichwertigkeit beruflicher und hochschulischer Bildung, was entscheidend zur Entwicklung eines eigenständigen und gleichwertigen Gesamtsystems der Berufs- und Weiterbildung beiträgt. Die noch am Anfang stehende Neugestaltung der betrieblichen Weiterbildung stärkt laut Beitrag den Bildungsanspruch im Sinne einer selbstbestimmten und humanen Persönlichkeitsentwicklung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Robot Adoption at German Plants (2024)
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Deng, Liuchun, Verena Plümpe & Jens Stegmaier (2024): Robot Adoption at German Plants. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 244, H. 3, S. 201-235., 2023-10-14. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2022-0073
Abstract
"Using a newly collected dataset at the plant level from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic portrait of robotization in Germany and study the correlates of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers five stylized facts: (1) Robot use is relatively rare. (2) The distribution of robots is highly skewed. (3) New robot adopters contribute substantially to the recent robotization. (4) Robot users are exceptional. (5) Heterogeneity in robot types matters. Our regression results further suggest plant size, high-skilled labor share, exporter status, and labor shortage to be strongly associated with the future probability of robot adoption." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter) ((en))
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Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies (2024)
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Doorn, Lars Van & Olaf van Vliet (2024): Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 53, H. 3, S. 751-771. DOI:10.1017/S0047279422000629
Abstract
"Technological change has squeezed the demand for middle-skill jobs, which typically involve routine-intense tasks. This squeeze has coincided with an increase in the number of part-time working individuals who wish to work more hours. We argue that these two trends are linked. Due to the decline of middle-skill employment, medium-educated workers shift into low-skill employment, increasing the supply of labor for jobs in this segment of the labor market. This pushes those dependent on these jobs to accept part-time jobs, even if these involve fewer hours than they prefer. To empirically assess this claim, we analyze involuntary part-time employment across 16 European countries between 1999 and 2010. Our analysis confirms that a decline in middle-skill employment is associated with an increase in involuntary part-time employment at the bottom end of the labor market. This finding implies that the automation of routine-intense labour worsens employment possibilities in this segment of the labor market. However, we show that training and job creation schemes mitigate this effect. These programs cushion competition either by providing medium-educated workers with the necessary skills to shift into high-skill jobs or by increasing employment possibilities. Thus, governments have the tools to support workers facing challenges in the knowledge economy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Too old for modern work? An explicit and implicit measure of the modern-work-is-young stereotype (2024)
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Drazic, Ivana & Carsten C. Schermuly (2024): Too old for modern work? An explicit and implicit measure of the modern-work-is-young stereotype. In: German Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 38, H. 1, S. 59-89. DOI:10.1177/23970022231195061
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"With organizational practices such as working from home, agile project management, and shared leadership, the world of work is becoming increasingly dynamic and flexible. Simultaneously, the workforce in most industrialized nations is getting older. We hypothesized that both an explicit and implicit stereotype exists that associates modern work practices (MWP) more strongly with younger workers than with older workers (i.e. modern-work-is-young stereotype). With a focus on other-stereotyping, we surveyed participants who identified as younger or middle-aged workers (N = 186). Based on the contact hypothesis, we assumed that contact to older coworkers and contact with MWP are negatively related to both explicit and implicit endorsement of the modern-work-is-young stereotype. Furthermore, we examined differences in résumé evaluations for a job involving MWP, presenting an older and a younger hypothetical applicant. The results indicate the existence of a moderate explicit as well as implicit modern-work-is-young stereotype. The proposed contact hypothesis held true for the explicit but not for the implicit modern-work-is-young stereotype. Lastly, the younger applicant received significantly more positive evaluations than the older applicant, and only the explicit modern-work-is-young stereotype predicted the extent of age discrimination. The results suggest that the explicit modern-work-is-young stereotype can harm older employees and hamper intergenerational collaboration. These findings are especially important in times of demographic change, when workforces are becoming increasingly age-heterogeneous and retaining older workers seems more important than ever." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of automation in the apparel and automotive sectors and their gender dimensions (2024)
Fana, Marta ; Tejani, Sheeba; Kucera, David; Esquivel, Valeria; Bárcia De Mattos, Fernanda; Anzolin, Guendalina;Zitatform
Fana, Marta, Fernanda Bárcia De Mattos, Valeria Esquivel, Guendalina Anzolin, David Kucera & Sheeba Tejani (2024): The effects of automation in the apparel and automotive sectors and their gender dimensions. (JRC science for policy report 136639), Brüssel, 66 S.
Abstract
"This report is the final output of a research project investigating the effects of automation on employment in the automotive, apparel and footwear industries in five countries, namely Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Romania, and Spain. The main objective of this project has been to improve our understanding of how ongoing processes of technological upgrading, particularly automation, impact women's and men's employment and work in these industries. Our findings suggest that, in the short term, close to the introduction of new automation technology, the impact on employment takes the form of reassignment of workers directly involved in automated processes to other positions, tasks, and occupations. This study also explored the impact of automation in terms of work organization and working conditions. Across the case studies, it emerged that the adoption of automation technologies has reduced heavy and repetitive tasks and improved health and safety for workers directly concerned by automation. Another interesting and related common finding is the reduction of workers' autonomy who are now subject to more standardization of tasks together with an ongoing process of deskilling of operators. Finally, in the apparel and footwear sector, we did not find evidence of defeminisation at the establishment level as well as the automotive factories remains highly male-dominated. Cultural norms and stereotypes which influence not only the jobs women and men apply to and get hired for, but also which training and education they engage in, contribute to this gender segregation in both sectors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Informationsbereitstellung zur Automatisierbarkeit von Berufen erhöht Weiterbildungsbereitschaft (2024)
Freundl, Vera; Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina;Zitatform
Freundl, Vera, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Wedel & Katharina Werner (2024): Informationsbereitstellung zur Automatisierbarkeit von Berufen erhöht Weiterbildungsbereitschaft. In: Ifo-Schnelldienst, Jg. 77, H. 3, S. 39-43.
Abstract
"Beschäftige in Deutschland unterschätzen die Automatisierbarkeit ihres Berufs. Dies gilt vor allem für Beschäftigte in Berufen mit hoher Automatisierbarkeit, wie eine neue Studie von Lergetporer et al. (2023) zeigt. Die randomisierte Bereitstellung von Informationen über die tatsächliche Automatisierbarkeit ihrer Berufe erhöht die Arbeitsmarktsorgen und die Einschätzung über Veränderungen des Arbeitsumfelds. Außerdem wird die Teilnahmebereitschaft an Weiterbildungs und Umschulungsmaßnahmen erhöht, insbesondere bei Befragten in Berufen mit hoher Automatisierbarkeit. Dadurch verringert sich der Unterschied in der Weiterbildungsbereitschaft zwischen Beschäftigten in Berufen mit hoher und niedriger Automatisierbarkeit um 95,5 %, die Lücke in der Umschulungsbereitschaft wird sogar vollständig geschlossen." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Gig-Work bei Lieferdiensten in Deutschland: Beschäftigung hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen (2024)
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Friedrich, Martin, Ines Helm, Ramona Jost, Julia Lang & Christoph Müller (2024): Gig-Work bei Lieferdiensten in Deutschland: Beschäftigung hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen. In: IAB-Forum H. 03.04.2024, 2024-03-28. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240403.01
Abstract
"Die Fahrer*innen von App-basierten Lieferdiensten sind auch in Deutschland aus dem Stadtbild nicht mehr wegzudenken. Gleichzeitig wird in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers über die Arbeitsbedingungen in der sogenannten Plattform-Ökonomie diskutiert. Das IAB untersucht nun erstmals das Wachstum und die Struktur dieser Beschäftigungsform sowie die individuellen Merkmale der abhängig Beschäftigten bei zehn großen App-basierten Lieferdiensten in Deutschland. Fast die Hälfte dieser Menschen ist geringfügig beschäftigt und ihr Einkommen ist geringer als in vergleichbaren Helferberufen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Friedrich, Martin; Helm, Ines; Jost, Ramona ; Müller, Christoph ; Lang, Julia ; -
Literaturhinweis
The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments (2024)
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Gathmann, Christina, Christian Kagerl, Laura Pohlan & Duncan Roth (2024): The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments. In: Labour Economics, 2024-04-05. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102541
Abstract
"Using a novel firm survey matched to administrative employee records, we demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic was a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. Two out of three firms invested in digital technologies. Three quarters of those investing firms invested because of the pandemic, particularly in hardware and software to enable decentralized communication, management, and coordination. These investments also fostered additional firm-sponsored training, underscoring the complementarity between investments in digital technologies and training. We then show that the investments helped firms insure their workers against the economic downturn. Firms with additional digital investments retained more of their employees on regular working hours and relied less on short-time work. Low- and medium-skilled, as well as young workers, benefited the most from the insurance effect of digital investments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Wie kollegial ist Künstliche Intelligenz?: Risikowahrnehmungen und Gestaltungsanforderungen aus Sicht von Beschäftigten (2024)
Gerlmaier, Anja; Bendel, Alexander;Zitatform
Gerlmaier, Anja & Alexander Bendel (2024): Wie kollegial ist Künstliche Intelligenz? Risikowahrnehmungen und Gestaltungsanforderungen aus Sicht von Beschäftigten. (IAQ-Report 2024-01), Duisburg ; Essen, 15 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/81427
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Zukünftig werden immer mehr Beschäftigte nicht nur in ihrem privaten Umfeld, sondern auch am Arbeitsplatz mit Systemen zusammenarbeiten, die auf Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) basieren. Das IAQ untersuchte im Rahmen des "HUMAINE"-Projektes, wie Beschäftigte die Kooperation mit solchen KI-Systemen bewerten und welche Gestaltungsanforderungen sie an diese neue Form der hybriden Mensch-KI-Zusammenarbeit haben. Es zeigte sich, dass KI-Systeme je nach Interaktionsform unterschiedliche Potenziale und Risiken aufweisen. Um die KI-basierten Risiken zu verringern, sollten Nutzer*innen frühzeitig an der Konzeption und Implementierung beteiligt und dabei arbeitswissenschaftliche Gestaltungskriterien berücksichtigt werden. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)
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Folgen des technologischen Wandels für den Arbeitsmarkt: Vor allem Hochqualifizierte bekommen die Digitalisierung verstärkt zu spüren (2024)
Grienberger, Katharina; Matthes, Britta; Paulus, Wiebke;Zitatform
Grienberger, Katharina, Britta Matthes & Wiebke Paulus (2024): Folgen des technologischen Wandels für den Arbeitsmarkt: Vor allem Hochqualifizierte bekommen die Digitalisierung verstärkt zu spüren. (IAB-Kurzbericht 05/2024), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2405
Abstract
"Die Potenziale, dass berufliche Tätigkeiten durch Computer oder computergesteuerte Maschinen vollautomatisch erledigt werden könnten, ändern sich, wenn neue Technologien auf dem Markt verfügbar werden. Bei der Neuberechnung solcher Substituierbarkeitspotenziale wird neben dieser Entwicklung auch berücksichtigt, dass sich die Tätigkeitsprofile in den Berufen verändern, neue Berufe und Tätigkeiten entstehen und Beschäftigte ihren Beruf wechseln. Die Autorinnen zeigen für die technologischen Möglichkeiten im Jahr 2022, wie hoch das Substituierbarkeitspotenzial derzeit ist und wie es sich seit 2013 verändert hat." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Anteil der beruflichen Tätigkeiten, die automatisiert werden könnten, variiert regional erheblich (2024)
Grienberger, Katharina; Paulus, Wiebke; Matthes, Britta;Zitatform
Grienberger, Katharina, Britta Matthes & Wiebke Paulus (2024): Anteil der beruflichen Tätigkeiten, die automatisiert werden könnten, variiert regional erheblich. In: IAB-Forum – Grafik aktuell H. 12.03.2024.
Abstract
"Das Substituierbarkeitspotenzial gibt an, in welchem Ausmaß Berufe potenziell durch den Einsatz von digitalen Technologien und KI ersetzbar sind. Bei der Aktualisierung der Daten für das Jahr 2022 zeigt sich, dass in Deutschland durchschnittlich 38 Prozent der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten in einem Beruf arbeiten, in dem das Substituierbarkeitspotenzial hoch ist, also bei über 70 % liegt (siehe auch IAB-Kurzbericht 5/2024). Dabei weisen nach wie vor das Saarland, Baden-Württemberg und Thüringen die höchsten Anteile an sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten in Berufen mit einem solch hohen Substituierbarkeitspotenzial auf. In Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hamburg, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein und Sachsen-Anhalt sind diese Anteile am niedrigsten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Dekarbonisierung, Digitalisierung, Demographie: Gestaltungsanspruch für gewerblich-technische Facharbeit und Bildung (2024)
Grimm, Axel; Schlausch, Reiner; Karges, Torben; Herkner, Volkmar;Zitatform
Grimm, Axel, Volkmar Herkner, Torben Karges & Reiner Schlausch (Hrsg.) (2024): Dekarbonisierung, Digitalisierung, Demographie. Gestaltungsanspruch für gewerblich-technische Facharbeit und Bildung. (Perspektiven auf Berufsbildung, Arbeit und Technik 9), Berlin: Peter Lang, 524 S.
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"Am 6. und 7. Oktober 2022 fand am Berufsbildungsinstitut Arbeit und Technik (biat) der Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF) die 22. Herbstkonferenz der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gewerblich-Technische Wissenschaften und ihre Didaktiken (gtw) statt. Unter dem Tagungstitel „Dekarbonisierung, Digitalisierung, Demographie – Gestaltungsanspruch für gewerblich-technische Facharbeit und Bildung" konnte die Konferenz drei nicht nur für die gewerblich-technische Facharbeit und die Berufsbildung sehr zentrale gesellschaftliche Themenstellungen aufgreifen, mit denen bereits seit geraumer Zeit und zukünftig noch wesentlich stärker ein hoher Gestaltungsanspruch einhergeht. Über dreißig Einzelbeiträge verdeutlichen in diesem Band die thematische Relevanz für die gewerblich-technischen Wissenschaften." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Peter Lang)
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Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis (2024)
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Guarascio, Dario, Alessandro Piccirillo & Jelena Reljic (2024): Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 1395), Essen, 31 S.
Abstract
"This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially concerning wages. After correcting for this bias, the actual impact appears minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological unemployment may be exaggerated or not yet empirically supported. While this does not preclude that robots will be capable of gaining greater disruptive potential in the future or that they are not already disruptive in specific contexts, the evidence to date suggests their aggregate effect is negligible." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Basiswissen BWL: New Work (2024)
Hillebrecht, Steffen;Zitatform
Hillebrecht, Steffen (2024): Basiswissen BWL: New Work. In: Das Wirtschaftsstudium, Jg. 53, H. 3, S. 227-228.
Abstract
"New Work ist das Bemühen, Arbeit anders als bislang zu organisieren, anders mit ihr umzugehen und ihr neuen Sinn zu verleihen. (vgl. Väth, S.41 ff.; vgl. Rehfeld). Der Begriff reflektiert zugleich die neuen Anforderungen, die sich durch die neue Arbeitswelt, insbesondere durch die Globalisierung, die Digitalisierung, neue Arten der Zusammenarbeit und durch die künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ergeben. Richtig umgesetzt kann New Work zu einem Kulturwandel im Unternehmen führen." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku, © Lange Verlag)
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Does robotization improve the skill structure? The role of job displacement and structural transformation (2024)
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Hu, Shengming, Kai Lin, Bei Liu & Hui Wang (2024): Does robotization improve the skill structure? The role of job displacement and structural transformation. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 56, H. 28, S. 3415-3430. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2023.2206623
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"The literature generally focuses on the impact of robots or artificial intelligence on the employment and wages, but ignores the effect of robotization on the skill structure and its underlying mechanisms and lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. We theoretically develop a task model by introducing the skill structure and empirically investigate the effect of robotization on the skill structure based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2006 to 2018. Results show that: (1) the development of robotization in China is conducive to improving the skill structure, and the baseline conclusion still holds even though adopting multiple indexes of skill structure and controlling the endogeneity bias. (2) Robotization generates not only job displacement effect by displacing unskilled workers with robots but also structural transformation effect by increasing the proportion of technology-intensive industries, which can improve the skill structure. (3) In coastal provinces with strong Internet foundation, information transmission capacity and labour protection intensity, high labour cost and ageing rate, robotization plays a stronger role in improving the skill structure. Moreover, robotization can induce the employment polarization. These conclusions can help avoid technical unemployment and promote the upgrading of the skill structure in China." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Potenziale Generativer KI für den Mittelstand: Wie große KI-Modelle die Arbeitswelt verändern (2024)
Hölzle, Katharina; Drawehn, Jens; Uhler, Lydia; Dworschak, Bernd; Wulf, Jessica; Mozer, Pia; Kintz, Maximilien; Riedel, Oliver; Beinhauer, Wolfgang; Renner, Thomas; Klau, Dennis; Bienzeisler, Bernd; Peissner, Matthias; Kaiser, Simone; Bauer, Thomas; Haner, Udo-Ernst; Renner, Thomas; Mackensen, Jan; Engelbach, Matthias;Zitatform
Drawehn, Jens, Lydia Uhler, Bernd Dworschak, Jessica Wulf, Pia Mozer, Maximilien Kintz, Wolfgang Beinhauer, Dennis Klau, Bernd Bienzeisler, Matthias Peissner, Simone Kaiser, Udo-Ernst Haner, Thomas Renner, Jan Mackensen & Matthias Engelbach, Hölzle, Katharina, Oliver Riedel, Thomas Bauer & Thomas Renner (Hrsg.) Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Drawehn, Jens, Lydia Uhler, Bernd Dworschak, Jessica Wulf, Pia Mozer, Maximilien Kintz, Wolfgang Beinhauer, Dennis Klau, Bernd Bienzeisler, Matthias Peissner, Simone Kaiser, Udo-Ernst Haner, Thomas Renner, Jan Mackensen & Matthias Engelbach (sonst. bet. Pers.) (2024): Potenziale Generativer KI für den Mittelstand. Wie große KI-Modelle die Arbeitswelt verändern. Stuttgart, 72 S. DOI:10.24406/publica-2246
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"Seit der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT im November 2022 haben die Entwicklungen im Bereich Generative KI deutlich an Fahrt aufgenommen. In kurzer Abfolge wurden - und werden immer noch - neue Modelle und Funktionen vorgestellt. Zunehmend zeichnen sich breite Einsatzmöglichkeiten in den Unternehmen ab, mit einem hohen zu erwartenden Nutzenpotenzial. Vor allem für mittelständische Unternehmen stellt es eine Herausforderung dar, die Bedeutung der Entwicklungen einzuschätzen und eine strukturierte Vorgehensweise zum Thema Generative KI zu definieren und umzusetzen. Das Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus Baden-Württemberg hat das Fraunhofer IAO beauftragt, mittels einer Studie eine Orientierungshilfe zu den aktuellen Entwicklungen zu bieten und konkrete Empfehlungen für den Umgang mit Generativer KI zu geben. Ein vielköpfiges Autorenteam des Fraunhofer IAO aus verschiedenen Forschungsbereichen hat, neben einer ausführlichen Literaturrecherche, 48 Expertinnen und Experten im Bereich Generativer KI zu ihren Einschätzungen befragt. Es wurden sowohl Forschungseinrichtungen, KI-Anbieter, Dienstleister als auch Anwenderunternehmen miteinbezogen. Das Ergebnis der Recherche und Befragung liegt in Form dieser Studie vor, die einen Beitrag zum bewussten und zielgerichteten Umgang mit Generativer KI in den Unternehmen leisten soll." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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No Thanks, Dear AI! Understanding the Effects of Disclosure and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Public Sector Recruitment (2024)
Keppeler, Florian;Zitatform
Keppeler, Florian (2024): No Thanks, Dear AI! Understanding the Effects of Disclosure and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Public Sector Recruitment. In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. 39-52. DOI:10.1093/jopart/muad009
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"Applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) play an increasing role in the public sector and invoke political discussions. Research gaps exist regarding the disclosure effects—reactions to disclosure of the use of AI applications—and the deploymenteffect—efficiency gains in data savvy tasks. This study analyzes disclosure effects and explores the deployment of an AI application in a preregistered field experiment (n = 2,000) co-designed with a public organization in the context of employer-driven recruitment. The linear regression results show that disclosing the use of the AI application leads to significantly less interest in an offer among job candidates. The explorative analysis of the deployment of the AI application indicates that the person–job fit determined by the leaders can be predicted by the AIapplication. Based on the literature on algorithm aversion and digital discretion, this study provides a theoretical and empirical disentanglement of the disclosure effect and the deployment effect to inform future evaluations of AI applications in the public sector. It contributes to the understanding of how AI applications can shape public policy and management decisions, and discusses the potential benefits and downsides of disclosing and deploying AI applications in the public sector and in employer-driven recruitment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The role of occupational skill sets in the digital transformation: how IT progress shapes returns to specialization and social skills (2024)
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Kiener, Fabienne, Christian Eggenberger & Uschi Backes-Gellner (2024): The role of occupational skill sets in the digital transformation: how IT progress shapes returns to specialization and social skills. In: Journal of business economics, Jg. 94, H. 1, S. 75-111. DOI:10.1007/s11573-023-01153-9
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"Workers’ occupational skill sets play a crucial role in successfully handling digital transformation. We investigate whether and how different types of occupational skill sets benefit from digital transformation. We theoretically and empirically analyze wage returns of workers in occupations with more or less specialized skill sets and with more or less social skills when IT increases in their industry. Applying natural language processing methods to the texts of occupational training curricula, we develop measures for occupational specialization and social skills. We use vocational education and training curricula from Switzerland because they cover approx. two-thirds of the working population. Using curricula, industry-level IT data and individual-level administrative wage data, our individual fixed-effects analyses show that IT progress leads to higher wage returns for workers in highly specialized occupations but not for workers in more general occupations. In addition, we find that high levels of social skills cannot make up for this difference when IT advances. However, our results indicate that for workers with high specialization, a combination with high social skills generates additional benefits when IT advances. Overall, our results suggest that, contrary to typical assumptions in educational policy debates, workers with specialized occupational skill sets—possibly in combination with high social skills—appear to be the ones who are particularly well prepared to cope with digital transformation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Support and employment preferences in online platform work: A cluster analysis of German-speaking workers (2024)
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Klaus, Dominik, Maddalena Lamura, Marcel Bilger & Barbara Haas (2024): Support and employment preferences in online platform work. A cluster analysis of German-speaking workers. In: International Journal of Social Welfare online erschienen am 05.03.2024. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12659
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"Online platform work is an emerging field of non-standard employment. Up to now, there has been little knowledge of the perspective of online platform workers on social protection and regulation. We provide quantitative data (n = 1727) on their needs for support and on their employment status preferences. Given the heterogeneity of German-speaking online platform workers, we have conducted a cluster analysis to group workers according to task length, hourly wage, working hours and experience on online platforms. Most of the respondents are solo-self-employed and hybrid workers. They prefer support instruments that improve their skills and income over those that aim to strengthen their rights. The majority of platform workers are in favour of working outside of platforms. The study also shows that despite the low dependence on platform income, the actual poverty risk is relatively high." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Crafts and Their Social Imaginary: How Technological Development Shapes the Future of the Crafts Sector (2024)
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Kofler, Ingrid & Maximilian Walder (2024): Crafts and Their Social Imaginary: How Technological Development Shapes the Future of the Crafts Sector. In: Social Sciences, Jg. 13, H. 3. DOI:10.3390/socsci13030137
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"The crafts sector, traditionally characterized by its adherence to heritage and small-scale familial enterprises, confronts an array of unprecedented challenges stemming from rapid technological advancement, globalization, climate change, and shifting demographics. This article presents a pioneering investigation into the profound and transformative effects of digitalization on the crafts sector, offering novel insights into the future trajectory of this industry. Through an explorative approach, we critically examine and interrogate the social imaginary underpinning the crafts sector, shedding light on the intricate interplay between tradition and innovation. Leveraging an inter- and transdisciplinary framework, our research brings together academics, experts, and practitioners from diverse regions in Italy and Austria to explore the nexus of digitalization and craft futures. We introduce three future scenarios for the crafts sector, each delineating varying degrees of digitalization and their potential implications. Employing a mixed-method approach encompassing expert interviews, a Delphi survey, focus groups, and scenario development, our study offers a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted landscape of craft futures. Furthermore, through the visualization of these scenarios, we provide a tangible platform for envisioning and engaging with the myriad possibilities that lie ahead. By synthesizing innovative methodologies from future studies and social imaginaries with a specific focus on the crafts sector, our research offers a robust analytical framework for navigating the complex dynamics of digitalization and envisioning transformative futures. This paper not only illuminates the disruptive forces unleashed by digitalization but also provides strategic insights to inform future decision-making processes within the crafts sector and beyond." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender-specific? (2024)
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Kristal, Tali, Efrat Herzberg-Druker & Adena White (2024): Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender-specific? In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 89. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100890
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"Past research on the relationship between computers and wages has revealed two stylized facts. First, workers who use a computer at work earn higher wages than similar workers who do not (termed as ‘the computer wage premium’). Second, women are more likely to use a computer at work than are men. Given the recognized computer wage premium and women’s advantage in computer use at work, we ask: Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender- or non-gender-specific? Given gendered processes operating at both the occupational and within-occupation levels, we expect that returns to computer usage are gender-bias. This contrasts the skill-biased technological change (SBTC) theory assumption that the theorized pathways through which computers boost earnings are non-gender-specific productivity-enhancing mechanisms. Analyzing occupational data on computer use at work from O*NET attached to the 1979–2016 Current Population Surveys (CPS) and individual-level data from the 2012 Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), we find that the computer wage premium is biased in favor of men at the occupation level. We conclude by suggesting that computer-based technologies relate to reproducing old forms of gender pay inequality due to gendered processes that operate mainly at the structural level (i.e., occupations) rather than at the individual level." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Business 5.0: Der Praxis-Guide für Künstliche Intelligenz in Unternehmen - Chancen und Risiken (2024)
Köhler, Thomas R.; Finkeissen, Julia;Zitatform
Köhler, Thomas R. & Julia Finkeissen (2024): Business 5.0. Der Praxis-Guide für Künstliche Intelligenz in Unternehmen - Chancen und Risiken. Frankfurt;New York: Campus Verlag, 253 S.
Abstract
"Endlich ist er da, der Durchbruch für Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bzw. Artificial Intelligence (AI). Doch Zweifel an der "Universalwaffe" ChatGPT und ähnlichen KI-Systemen sind erlaubt. Thomas R. Köhler und Julia Finkeissen liefern in ihrem neuen Buch eine Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Technologien und trennen dabei schonungslos Hype von Wirklichkeit. Sie liefern das Rüstzeug für jede Führungskraft, um KI aktiv im Unternehmen sinnvoll einzusetzen. Business 5.0 zeigt in sieben Schritten, wo und wie KI-Projekte im Unternehmen etabliert werden können, und liefert konkrete Beispiele für unterschiedliche Branchen und Querschnittsfunktionen. Ein nachhaltiger KI-Einsatz im Unternehmen steht dabei im Mittelpunkt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Campus)
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Job loss and Covid-19: an analysis on the impacts of remote work and automation (2024)
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Livanos, Ilias & Panagiotis Ravanos (2024): Job loss and Covid-19: an analysis on the impacts of remote work and automation. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 31, H. 8, S. 712-723. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2022.2146641
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"Using a unique dataset from a dedicated Cedefop Skills Forecast scenario on the impacts of COVID-19, this paper explores two possible determinants of expected job loss in the European Union (EU) due to the pandemic, namely the potential of work from home and the impacts of automation. Our findings suggest that less remote work and more automation are both related to future job losses across countries and occupations. These links are stronger in 2020–2021 at the country level, while becoming significant at the occupation level after 2022 when several protective measures taken by EU governments are expected to have been lifted." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The future of employee development in the emerging fourth industrial revolution: a preferred liberal future (2024)
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Loumpourdi, Maria (2024): The future of employee development in the emerging fourth industrial revolution: a preferred liberal future. In: Journal of vocational education and training, Jg. 76, H. 1, S. 25-44. DOI:10.1080/13636820.2021.1998793
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"The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is a socio-technical, ideological, and rhetorical construction rooted in the neoliberal discourse that reflects key tenets of global capitalism, is believed to have considerable implications for the development of employees in advanced manufacturing environments. This paper aims to explore the ways in which the learning needs of employees in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution could be appropriately identified and how employees could further develop their skills through the design of suitable development curricula. To this end , the paper seeks to interrogate the ways in which the employees’ learning needs are likely to be identified in the middle-range future, and problemate the focus of highly specialised and exclusively focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curricula that are likely to be designed to help employees respond to the perceived demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The paper further seeks to explore a preferred liberal future, drawing on the work of Martha Nussbaum, to create the possibility for an alternative future guided by a more holistic conception of employee development through the establishment of learner-centred, liberal – and liberating – interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) curricula." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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KI und der Wandel von Angestelltenarbeit: Zum „blinden Fleck“ der aktuellenAutomatisierungsdebatte (2024)
Lühr, Thomas; Kämpf, Tobias;Zitatform
Lühr, Thomas & Tobias Kämpf (2024): KI und der Wandel von Angestelltenarbeit. Zum „blinden Fleck“ der aktuellenAutomatisierungsdebatte. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 77, H. 2, S. 98-106. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2024-2-98
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"Der Beitrag analysiert den Wandel von Angestelltenarbeit vor dem Hintergrund der digitalen Transformation. Ausgangspunkt ist ein Automatisierungsschub, der durch erweiterte Möglichkeiten der Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) geprägt ist. Auf der Grundlage empirischer Befunde werden die qualitativen Veränderungstendenzen von Arbeit in den Blick genommen, und zwar sowohl aus der Anwenderperspektive der Sachbearbeiter*innen als auch aus der Sicht der hochqualifizierten Entwickler*innen und Implementoren neuer KI-Lösungen. Insgesamt wird ein Strukturwandel von Angestelltenarbeit konstatiert, der nicht nur das Risiko von Jobverlusten, sondern auch Potenziale für eine Aufwertung und Höherqualifizierung hervorbringt und sich im Angestelltenbewusstsein manifestiert. In arbeitspolitischer Perspektive eröffnen sich Anknüpfungspunkte für eine Vorwärtsstrategie im Sinne eines nachhaltigen Umbaus von Beschäftigung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Visible hands: How gig companies shape workers' exposure to market risk (2024)
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Maffie, Michael David (2024): Visible hands: How gig companies shape workers' exposure to market risk. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 63, H. 1, S. 59-79. DOI:10.1111/irel.12337
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"How do gig platforms prevent workers from defecting to a competitor? Drawing on 40 original interviews and survey data from 210 ride-hail drivers, the author finds that platform companies calibrate workers' exposure to market risk using gamified reward systems. These rewards protect compliant workers from changes in market conditions, raising the costs of accepting work from a competitor. Yet those who do not comply are “pushed” to the periphery, increasing their market risk. This article illustrates how platform companies can use their “visible hands” to harness and control market forces, shaping worker behavior within and across platforms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit: Ende oder Halbzeit des großen Produktivitätssprungs? (2024)
Markert, Cornelius; Amlinger, Marc;Zitatform
Markert, Cornelius & Marc Amlinger (2024): Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit: Ende oder Halbzeit des großen Produktivitätssprungs? In: IAB-Forum H. 04.01.2024. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240104.01
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"Die Welt steht in den kommenden Jahrzehnten vor einem deutlichen Produktivitätssprung. Zu dieser Einschätzung gelangt das Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit auf Basis einer umfassenden interdisziplinären Studie. Sie nimmt die historische Entwicklung der Arbeit und der mit ihr zusammenhängenden Dimensionen Technik, Energie, Kommunikation, Wissenschaft, Alltagsleben, Wirtschaft, Herrschaft, Bevölkerung und Klima in den Blick." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Robots, meaning, and self-determination (2024)
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Nikolova, Milena, Femke Cnossen & Boris Nikolaev (2024): Robots, meaning, and self-determination. In: Research Policy, Jg. 53, H. 5. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2024.104987
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"This paper is the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness, autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are essential to motivation and well-being at work. Using surveys of workers and robotization data for 14 industries in 20 European countries spanning 2005–2021, we find a consistent negative impact of robotization on perceived work meaningfulness and autonomy. Using instrumental variables, we find that doubling robotization leads to a 0.9 % decrease in work meaningfulness and a 1 % decline in autonomy. To put this in perspective, if the robotization levels of the top 5 industry were to match those of the leading industry in terms of robot adoption in 2020 (equivalent to a 7.5-fold increase), it would result in a decline of 6.8 % in work meaningfulness and 7.5 % in autonomy. The link between robotization, competence, and relatedness is also negative but less robust. We also examine how tasks, skills, and socio-demographic characteristics moderate the main relationships. We find that workers with routine tasks experience an even greater negative effect of robotization in terms of declines in their autonomy, competence, and relatedness. However, we also discover that utilizing computers as tools for independent work can help workers maintain a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in industries and job roles that adopt robots. Our results highlight that by deteriorating work meaningfulness and self-determination, robotization can impact work life above and beyond its consequences for employment and wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: Explorations in the Transition from a Techno-economic to a Socio-technical Future (2024)
Nousala, Susu; Metcalf, Gary; Ing, David;Zitatform
Nousala, Susu, Gary Metcalf & David Ing (Hrsg.) (2024): Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0. Explorations in the Transition from a Techno-economic to a Socio-technical Future. (Translational Systems Sciences 41), Singapore: Imprint: Springer, XXI, 184 S. DOI:10.1007/978-981-99-9730-5
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"This is an Open Access book. In 2015, Industry 4.0 was announced with the rise of industrialization by the European Parliament, supporting policy, research, and infrastructure funding. In 2020, Industry 5.0 was launched as an evolution of Industry 4.0, towards societal and ecological values in a sustainable, human-centric, and resilient transition. In 2023, the IN4ACT research project team completed 4 years of research on the impact on these initiatives. Presentations reviewing the progress of management practices and economics led to conversations about what's next. The unanticipated rise in late 2022 of Generative AI technologies (e.g. ChatGPT, DALL-E) sparked dialogues with an extended circle of researchers on impacts not considered in 2015 or in 2020. This collection of chapters reflects multiple perspectives on research findings to 2023, prospects for 2024, and considerations on ways the techno-economic industrial revolutions may be reshaped into desirable futures respecting social and ecological concerns." (Provided by publisher)
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Exposure to generative artificial intelligence in the European labour market (2024)
Nurski, Laura; Ruer, Nina;Zitatform
Nurski, Laura & Nina Ruer (2024): Exposure to generative artificial intelligence in the European labour market. (Working paper / Bruegel 2024,06), Brüssel, 33 S.
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"We apply two sets of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) occupational exposure scores – one task-based, one ability-based – to the European Labour Force Survey. While using different methodologies, our findings reveal consistent demographic patterns across the two approaches: jobs held by women, highly educated and younger workers are more exposed to GenAI technology in Europe. We also review the literature on the recent productivity impact of GenAI. Within the same occupations, less-experienced or less-skilled workers consistently get the largest productivity gains from GenAI support. We argue that a task-based analysis is more fruitful than an ability-based one, both for guiding GenAI adoption in organisations and their workplaces, and for assessing the employment and job quality impact on workers. Finally, we provide policy recommendations that can help workers (ie the labor supply) adjust to technological disruption, such as providing training and social safety nets. But we go further by also suggesting policy interventions that could redirect future labor demand towards better jobs, by promoting job redesign and organisational agility. Monitoring GenAI’s employment effects and researching the ‘jagged technological frontier’ is necessary to further build our understanding of the employment impact of this transformational technology." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin's gig economy (2024)
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Orth, Barbara (2024): Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin's gig economy. In: Environment and planning. A, Economy and space, Jg. 56, H. 2, S. 476-490. DOI:10.1177/0308518X231191933
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"Platform labour scholars have noted the prevalence of migrant workers in the gig economy. This paper builds on this research but interrogates the broad concept of 'migrant labour'. The study draws on biographical interviews with platform workers in grocery delivery and domestic work platforms in Berlin, Germany as well as expert interviews with union representatives, migrant organisations and white-collar platform company employees. Through an examination of the mobility strategies of platform workers in this subset of the platform economy, the study reveals a stratification of migrant trajectories and of skills needed to engage in platform work across different types of labour platforms. The study finds that platform companies draw on a workforce that consists of recently arrived young migrants with comparatively high education, language skills and digital literacy. Through close analysis of an understudied section of the gig economy, the paper contributes to the ongoing theorisation of the nexus of migration regimes and platform-mediated labour regimes. The findings complicate the notion of 'accessibility' of platform work and call for the inclusion of visa regimes, immigration categories and particular skill sets in future research on platform labour." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 a Pion publication) ((en))
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KI im Unternehmen – Herausforderungen an die betriebliche Gestaltung moderner Arbeit (2024)
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Pfeiffer, Sabine (2024): KI im Unternehmen – Herausforderungen an die betriebliche Gestaltung moderner Arbeit. In: Faktor Arbeitsschutz H. 11, S. 34-39.
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"Eine Befragung von Beschäftigten zu ihrer Einstellung gegenüber der Nutzung von KI bei der Arbeit ergab – entgegen immer wieder behaupteter Angstzuschreibung – ein abgewogenes „Es kommt darauf an“. Wichtig ist es, Beschäftigte von Anfang an bei der Installation von KI im Betrieb zu beteiligen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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'Digital Tournaments': the colonisation of freelancers' 'free' time and unpaid labour in the online platform economy (2024)
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Pulignano, Valeria, Stefania Marino, Mathew Johnson, Markieta Domecka & Me-Linh Riemann (2024): 'Digital Tournaments': the colonisation of freelancers' 'free' time and unpaid labour in the online platform economy. In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, Jg. 48, H. 1, S. 133-150. DOI:10.1093/cje/bead042
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"This article challenges positive views of the assumed relationships between skills, productivity and rewards in self-employed digital freelancing. It suggests that the upfront investments made by freelancers to build up positive platform ratings are not necessarily recouped in the form of increased autonomy, guaranteed work or more lucrative ‘gigs’. Drawing on 38 autobiographical narrative interviews and 12 audio working diaries with diverse online freelancers in Europe, we show how the low barriers to enter platform work provide opportunities for those with limited work experience and other commitments outside of work. However, the intense competition between an ever-expanding pool of (both skilled and unskilled) task freelancers within ‘digital tournaments’ results in the colonisation of worker’s free time, and the normalisation of unpaid labour. This implies that ‘free time’ for freelancers is largely an illusion. Furthermore, the significant ‘sunk costs’ that freelancers make in terms of time, platform-specific skills, reputation and networks are not fully recovered and cannot be transferred to other platforms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Boundary Work Tactics and Their Effects on Information and Communication Technology Use After Hours and Recovery (2024)
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Reinke, Kathrin, Lisa Niederkrome & Sandra Ohly (2024): Boundary Work Tactics and Their Effects on Information and Communication Technology Use After Hours and Recovery. In: Journal of Personnel Psychology, Jg. 23, H. 1, S. 36-48. DOI:10.1027/1866-5888/a000335
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"With an increasing use of work-related technologies after hours and mobile working, boundaries between work and personal life domains blur more and more, impairing recovery. Qualitative studies have shown that individuals use various boundary work tactics to actively manage their work–nonwork boundaries. However, it remains largely unknown how the use of such tactics contributes to recovery. This research differentiates types of availability-related boundary work tactics and organizes them according to their underlying motives: preventive, restrictive, and rejecting tactics. The results of a cross-sectional study (N = 249) and a validation study (N = 175) support the proposed motive-oriented structure of tactics and show differential prediction of psychological detachment and relaxation. Implications for practice and future research are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Hogrefe Verlag) ((en))
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Productivity and Employment – How Can We Assess It and What Can We Observe? (2024)
Saam, Marianne;Zitatform
Saam, Marianne (2024): The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Productivity and Employment – How Can We Assess It and What Can We Observe? In: Intereconomics, Jg. 59, H. 1, S. 22-27. DOI:10.2478/ie-2024-0006
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"Technological optimists have been predicting the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution since the beginning of the past decade. This expectation contrasts with low productivity growth in many countries. The commercial release of ChatGPT in late 2022 has lead to rising expectations about a dramatic shift at least equivalent to the one associated with the commercial introduction of the Internet. But what is AI from an economic point of view? How can we observe the diffusion of AI in the economy and assess its effects in order to the draw conclusions for economic policy?" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age (2024)
Scheffer, Jörg;Zitatform
Scheffer, Jörg (2024): Mirrored Spaces. Social Inequality in the Digital Age. (Geographies of Media), Wiesbaden: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, XVII, 166 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-42793-1
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"This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalization and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalization massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially disadvantaged groups are faced with reproducing mechanisms as part of a new data economy. Surprisingly, the more intensively digital services are used, the more this happens. Building on Löw´s sociology of space and Bourdieu´s concept of habitus, this book shows how practices of social exclusion are transferred to the digital present in an innovative way. The image of “mirrored” spaces describes a new mechanism that explains social exclusion in the age of digitalization. This book is an essential resource for researchers and students interested in socio-economic inequalities, processes of digitalisation, and digital geographies." (Provided by publisher)
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Digitale Welt, digitale Berufe – welche digitalen Kompetenzen werden von Fachkräften gefordert? (2024)
Schlottmann, Philipp;Zitatform
Schlottmann, Philipp (2024): Digitale Welt, digitale Berufe – welche digitalen Kompetenzen werden von Fachkräften gefordert? In: Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - online, S. 1-19.
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"Die rasante Entwicklung digitaler Technologien hat die Art und Weise, wie Unternehmen arbeiten und Geschäfte tätigen, revolutioniert. Unternehmen müssen nun verstärkt auf digitale Kompetenzen achten, um die Nutzung digitaler Tools und Plattformen effektiv zu nutzen, Prozesse zu optimieren, Kunden zu erreichen und der Konkurrenz voraus zu sein. In dieser Studie wird untersucht, welche digitalen Kompetenzen im Bereich der Betriebswirtschaft genannt werden, um die wesentlichen Fähigkeiten, Kenntnisse und Einstellungen zu ermitteln, die in der heutigen Unternehmenslandschaft gefragt sind. Mit Hilfe von Text Mining werden digitale Kompetenzen aus einem umfangreichen Datensatz von 25.000 Stellenanzeigen zu betriebswirtschaftlichen Berufsbildern extrahiert. Die daraus resultierenden empirischen Daten werden analysiert, um zu strukturieren, welche digitalen Kompetenzen im Bereich der Betriebswirtschaft beschrieben werden. Die Studie zeigt, dass zwei spezifische digitale Kompetenzen besonders gefragt sind: die analytische Auswertung mit Hilfe verschiedener Software-Tools und die Kommunikation über soziale Medien. Darüber hinaus besteht ein wachsender Bedarf an der Analyse und Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen, die ebenfalls überdurchschnittlich wichtig gewertet werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Nürnberger Gespräche: Wie bewältigen Regionen die digitale und ökologische Transformation? (Podium) (2024)
Schludi, Martin; Lötzsch, Markus; Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Heilmaier, Andrea; Deckbar, Laura; Schnitzer, Monika; Wallheinke, Anna; Niebuhr, Annekatrin ; König, Marcus; Gropp, Reint;Zitatform
Schludi, Martin, Anna Wallheinke, Laura Deckbar, Markus Lötzsch, Bernd Fitzenberger, Andrea Heilmaier, Monika Schnitzer, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Marcus König & Reint Gropp; Markus Lötzsch, Bernd Fitzenberger, Andrea Heilmaier, Monika Schnitzer, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Marcus König & Reint Gropp (sonst. bet. Pers.) (2024): Nürnberger Gespräche: Wie bewältigen Regionen die digitale und ökologische Transformation? (Podium). In: IAB-Forum H. 06.05.2024 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240506.02
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"Energiewende, Mobilitätswende, Digitalisierung, Künstliche Intelligenz: Die aktuellen Herausforderungen sind gewaltig. Die digitale und die ökologische Transformation setzen Staat und Unternehmen unter massiven Anpassungsdruck. Zugleich ist jede Region in unterschiedlicher Weise mit den Chancen und Risiken der Transformation konfrontiert. Resultieren daraus auch unterschiedliche regionale Anpassungsstrategien? Wie effektiv ist regionale Wirtschaftsförderung? Und führen die Transformationsprozesse zu einer Reorganisation von Wirtschaftsräumen? Diese und weitere Fragen diskutierten Expertinnen und Experten aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Regionalpolitik am 13. März dieses Jahres bei den „Nürnberger Gesprächen“." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The job demands-resources model as a theoretical lens for the bright and dark side of digitization (2024)
Scholze, Alexander; Hecker, Achim;Zitatform
Scholze, Alexander & Achim Hecker (2024): The job demands-resources model as a theoretical lens for the bright and dark side of digitization. In: Computers in Human Behavior, Jg. 155. DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2024.108177
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"With digitization continuing to reshape work environments, organizations must confront the challenges of comprehending its “bright side” and “dark side” effects. A growing imperative exists to comprehend how digitization affects employee well-being and to create sustainable health-centric workplaces. The established Job Demands-Resources model offers a pertinent theoretical framework for gaining fresh insights into alterations in job demands and resources caused by digitization. This study extends the Job Demands-Resources model to include digital job demands and resources by utilizing a sample of 898 white-collar employees. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling was employed to investigate digitization's interrelationships and dependencies within an organizational context. The results confirm that the Job Demands-Resources model offers a holistic approach to investigating the concrete effects of the “dark side" and “bright side" of digitization in a concrete work scenario and to classify them in a theoretically structured way. This study offers starting points for the future design of workplaces and strategies for organizations to harness the positive aspects of digitization while concurrently mitigating the psychological stress on employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The rise of the digital labour market: characteristics and implications for the study of education, opportunity and work (2024)
Souto-Otero, Manuel; Brown, Phillip;Zitatform
Souto-Otero, Manuel & Phillip Brown (2024): The rise of the digital labour market: characteristics and implications for the study of education, opportunity and work. In: Journal of education and work online erschienen am 13.02.2024, S. 1-16. DOI:10.1080/13639080.2024.2310263
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"How the labor market operates in an increasingly digital context has remained under-researched. The article explains why the digital labor market is in urgent need of study, as digitalisation transforms how labor markets are structured and shape the competition for jobs. Digital tools give job seekers new ways of describing themselves and give employers access to new sources of data on candidates, in real-time and at low cost. We identify three dimensions of digital labor markets that distinguish them from earlier ‘analogue’ models – Information, Control and Engagement (ICE). We explain how changes in these dimensions contribute to a restructuring of the recruitment process, and outline implications for theories on the education–work relationship and for the analysis of social opportunity and inequalities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Coming Wave: Künstliche Intelligenz, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts (2024)
Suleyman, Mustafa; Bashkar, Michael;Zitatform
Suleyman, Mustafa (2024): The Coming Wave. Künstliche Intelligenz, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts. München: Beck, 377 S.
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"Die Menschheitsgeschichte kennt Innovationsschübe, die unaufhaltsam wie ein Tsunami alles verändern - die landwirtschaftliche Revolution, die Dampfmaschine, das Internet. Künstliche Intelligenz ist die nächste große Welle, die Coming Wave, die auf uns zurollt, und wir sind darauf nicht vorbereitet. Als Mitgründer von DeepMind weiß Mustafa Suleyman wie nur wenige andere, was die neuen Technologien können und was sie anzurichten vermögen. In seinem wegweisenden, vielgelobten Buch verortet der KI-Pionier die kommende Welle in der Geschichte der Menschheit, spielt die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen der neuen Technologien durch, und stellt sich dem größten Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts: wie wir von ihnen profitieren, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren. Bald werden wir in unserem täglichen Leben von KI umgeben sein. Sie wird unseren Alltag organisieren, unsere Wirtschaft prägen, und sogar Kernaufgaben der Staatsverwaltung übernehmen. Als Mitgründer von DeepMind hat Mustafa Suleyman viele Jahre im Zentrum der KI-Revolution gearbeitet. Das kommende Jahrzehnt wird nach seiner Einschätzung von rasanten technologischen Sprüngen geprägt sein, von neuen technologischen Möglichkeiten, über deren Folgen und Risiken wir noch kein klares Bild haben. Eines aber wissen wir: Wir brauchen die KI, um die Herausforderungen zu meistern, vor denen wir stehen, etwa den Klimawandel. Gleichzeitig bergen die neuen Technologien Gefahren, wie sie von keiner vorherigen Fortschrittswelle ausgingen, bis hin zur Auflösung von Staaten und einer Verdrängung des Menschen. Was macht man mit einer Welle, die auf den Strand zurast und sich nicht aufhalten lässt? Man versucht sie zu kanalisieren. Genau das ist das Anliegen dieses Buches: Inmitten immer intensiver werdender geopolitischer Konflikte den schmalen Grat zu finden, auf dem wir die Früchte der Technologie ernten, ohne ihr zum Opfer zu fallen. Das ist die zentrale Aufgabe unserer Zeit. "Unsere Zukunft hängt von den neuen Technologien ab, ist gleichzeitig aber durch sie gefährdet." Was KI für die Zukunft der Menschheit bedeutet Alle, die heute leben, sind betroffen DAS Buch zu Risiken, Chancen und Folgen der neuen Technologien Mustafa Suleyman ist Mitbegründer von DeepMind und einer der Pioniere der KI-Industrie. Wie wir die Oberhand behalten: Mustafa Suleyman über die Kernfrage unseres Jahrhunderts Ein 12-Punkte-Plan für den Umgang mit KI" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © C.H. Beck)
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Arbeit und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt: Konzepte, Themen, Analysen (2024)
Vogel, Berthold; Wolf, Harald;Zitatform
Vogel, Berthold & Harald Wolf (Hrsg.) (2024): Arbeit und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt. Konzepte, Themen, Analysen. (Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt 8), Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 354 S. DOI:10.12907/978-3-593-45776-5
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"Driftet die Arbeitsgesellschaft immer mehr auseinander, ist ihr Zusammenhalt zunehmend gefährdet? Zentrale Befunde der soziologischen Arbeitsforschung wie »Entgrenzung«, »Prekarisierung« oder »Fragmentierung« legen dies nahe und weisen auf gesellschaftliche Fliehkräfte und Desintegration hin. Aktuelle Umbrüche durch Digitalisierung, sozial-ökologische Transformation und Corona-Krise scheinen soziale Spaltungen ebenfalls zu vertiefen, Polarisierungen zuzuspitzen und Zusammenhalt zu gefährden. Die Frage nach Arbeit und gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt ist vor diesem Hintergrund naheliegend, aber bislang innerhalb der soziologischen Zeitdiagnostik vernachlässigt. Sie wird in diesem Band erstmals von national wie international prominenten Forscherinnen und Forschern aus verschiedenen Perspektiven aufgegriffen und analysiert." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)
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Labor-capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again (2024)
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Wang, June & Julia Tomassetti (2024): Labor-capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again. In: Sociology Compass, Jg. 18. DOI:10.1111/soc4.13192
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"Digital platform labor and its complex relationship with capital have stirred scholarly inquiry, calling for a systemic review that bridges foundational theories and various currents of development. In this review, we revisit Marxist and autonomist Marxist theses on the changing nature of work in the platform economy. Following that, we review two major strands of studies on the organization of production at the macro level and labour control at the micro level, which have revealed variegated types of workplace fissuring and different techniques of algorithmic control over bodies. However, we argue that the path forward must transcend these boundaries. We call for a revival of the ‘social factory’ thesis to rekindle ‘networking’ as a way of understanding labor-capital relations on digital platforms. Our premise is that capital and labor mutually constitute the platform economy through their agency of networking the internet and ‘outernet’. We outline four key directions for future research based on this premise: networking with public elements, networking with market-driven elements, networking for financialization in the digital landscape, and networking for resistance. By reinvigorating the social factory approach, we aim to enrich scholarly understandings of labor-capital relations in the platform economy by articulating digital labor in a wider web of sociocultural, technical, political and economic relationships extending beyond and transcending the internet." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Digitalisierung und Regulierung am Arbeitsmarkt (2024)
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Weber, Enzo (2024): Digitalisierung und Regulierung am Arbeitsmarkt. In: List-Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, Jg. 50, H. 1, S. 107-117., 2023-11-27. DOI:10.1007/s41025-023-00253-2
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"Industrie 4.0 und künstliche Intelligenz stehen in der Agenda der Debatte um die Zukunft des Arbeitsmarkts seit Jahren an erster Stelle. Die Corona-Krise hat der Digitalisierung im Arbeitsleben nochmals einen plötzlichen Schub gegeben. Die Transformation der Wirtschaft und die Weiterentwicklung von Sozialstaat und Arbeitsgesellschaft stellen die entscheidenden Herausforderungen dar. Dieser Artikel diskutiert einige Kernfragen und politische Gestaltungmöglichkeiten: Grundeinkommen, Weiterbildungspolitik, Robotersteuern und soziale Sicherung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer)
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Self-employment in the EU: Job quality and developments in social protection (2024)
Weber, Tina; Adăscăliței, Dragoș; Eiffe, Franz Ferdinand;Zitatform
Weber, Tina, Franz Ferdinand Eiffe & Dragoș Adăscăliței (2024): Self-employment in the EU: Job quality and developments in social protection. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Dublin, 86 S. DOI:10.2806/350964
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"The COVID-19 pandemic gave new impetus to the debate about access to social protection for the self-employed, as it highlighted gaps in formal and effective coverage as well as its adequacy. In 2021, there were formal coverage gaps for at least one group of self-employed people in at least one branch of social protection in 19 Member States. Gaps are most common in unemployment benefits (16.8 million people, or more than half of around 28 million self-employed in the EU, lack coverage), followed by sickness benefits (5.3 million people are not covered) and benefits linked to accidents at work and occupational diseases (4.2 million people are not covered). A lack of social security coverage contributed to the self-employed suffering financially more than employees during the pandemic. This was despite unprecedented interventions by governments to offer income support and increased access to social protection, including to the self-employed. This was made necessary by the absence of (or insufficient) coverage of the self-employed by contributory schemes. Many of these initiatives were temporary, but they nonetheless served to reignite the debate about the extent of social protection coverage for the self-employed. This discussion had already gathered momentum before the pandemic, largely because of the emergence of forms of self-employment sharing characteristics with dependent employment, especially in the platform economy, and also owing to more frequent changes in status and to the combination of employment and self-employment becoming more common. While most self-employed people enjoy good working conditions, autonomy and good earning potential, the policy debate has increasingly focused on the most vulnerable, and in particular on people in false and bogus self-employment." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing? (2024)
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Zhao, Yong, Da Yin, Lili Wang & Yihua Yu (2024): The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing? In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 33, H. 1, S. 75-105. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12586
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"Concerns exist regarding the impact on our lives of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Using a large dataset of 137 countries over the period 2005–2018 from multiple sources, we estimate the causal effect of AI on individual-level subjective wellbeing. Our identification strategy is inferred from the gravity framework and uses merely the variation in exogenous drivers of a country's AI development. We find a significant negative effect of AI on an individual's wellbeing, in terms of current levels or expectations of future wellbeing. The results are robust to alternative measures of AI, identification strategies, and sampling. Moreover, we find evidence of significant heterogeneity in the impact of AI on individual wellbeing. Further, this dampening effect on individual wellbeing resulting from the use of AI is more prominent among young people, men, high-income groups, high-skilled groups, and manufacturing workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Effects of digital innovation on income inequality among different workforces: evidence from Chinese industries (2024)
Zhou, Yongguang; Xie, Weihong; Li, Qun; Li, Jingwu;Zitatform
Zhou, Yongguang, Weihong Xie, Jingwu Li & Qun Li (2024): Effects of digital innovation on income inequality among different workforces: evidence from Chinese industries. In: Applied Economics online erschienen am 18.03.2024, S. 1-13. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2024.2331424
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"To understand the impact of digital innovation on the workforce and its role in achieving common prosperity, this paper uses data from Chinese A-share listed companies during 2006–2021 to investigate the effects of digital innovation on income inequality among different industry-level groups. We find that digital innovation significantly reduces income inequality among employees across industries, but it does not significantly impact income inequality within management groups. Through mechanistic analysis, we find that digital innovation decreases income inequality among ordinary employees whose incomes are closely linked to company performance and thereby for the entire workforce by narrowing the income gap across industries. However, as digital innovation does not significantly influence evaluation systems (e.g. educational degrees) for management income, it does not contribute to reducing income inequality among managerial levels. These findings provide valuable insights to develop policies for common prosperity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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High-skilled Human Workers in Non-Routine Jobs are Susceptible to AI Automation but Wage Benefits Differ between Occupations (2024)
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Özgül, Pelin, Marie-Christine Fregin, Michael Stops, Simon Janssen & Mark Levels (2024): High-skilled Human Workers in Non-Routine Jobs are Susceptible to AI Automation but Wage Benefits Differ between Occupations. (arXiv papers 2404.06472), 55 S. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2404.06472
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"Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change human work by taking over specific job tasks, but there is a debate which tasks are susceptible to automation, and whether AI will augment or replace workers and affect wages. By combining data on job tasks with a measure of AI susceptibility, we show that more highly skilled workers are more susceptible to AI automation, and that analytical non-routine tasks are at risk to be impacted by AI. Moreover, we observe that wage growth premiums for the lowest and the highest required skill level appear unrelated to AI susceptibility and that workers in occupations with many routine tasks saw higher wage growth if their work was more strongly susceptible to AI. Our findings imply that AI has the potential to affect human workers differently than canonical economic theories about the impact of technology on work these theories predict." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Using AI in the workplace : Opportunities, risks and policy responses (2024)
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OECD (2024): Using AI in the workplace : Opportunities, risks and policy responses. (OECD artificial intelligence papers 11), Paris, 15 S. DOI:10.1787/73d417f9-en
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"AI can bring significant benefits to the workplace. In the OECD AI surveys of employers and workers, four in five workers say that AI improved their performance at work and three in five say that it increased their enjoyment of work. But the benefits of AI depend on addressing the associated risks. Taking the effect of AI into account, occupations at highest risk of automation account for about 27% of employment in OECD countries. Workers also express concerns around increased work intensity, the collection and use of data, and increasing inequality. To support the adoption of trustworthy AI in the workplace, this policy paper identifies the main risks that need to be addressed when using AI in the workplace. It identifies the main policy gaps and offers possible policy avenues specific to labour markets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands (2023)
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Acemoglu, Daron, Hans R. A. Koster & Ceren Ozgen (2023): Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 31009), Cambridge, Mass, 60 S.
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"We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms and negative outcomes on competitors in the same industry. Our worker-level results show that directly-affected workers (e.g., blue-collar workers performing routine or replaceable tasks) face lower earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects from competitors' robot adoption load on directly-affected workers, while other workers benefit from this industry-level robot adoption. Overall, our results highlight the uneven effects of automation on the workforce." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Rebalancing AI (2023)
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon;Zitatform
Acemoglu, Daron & Simon Johnson (2023): Rebalancing AI. In: Finance and development, S. 26-29.
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"Optimistic forecasts regarding the growth implications of AI abound. AI adoption could boost productivity growth by 1.5 percentage points per year over a 10-year period and raise global GDP by 7 percent ($7 trillion in additional output), according to Goldman Sachs. Industry insiders offer even more excited estimates, including a supposed 10 percent chance of an “explosive growth” scenario, with global output rising more than 30 percent a year. All this techno-optimism draws on the “productivity bandwagon”: a deep-rooted belief that technological change— including automation—drives higher productivity, which raises net wages and generates shared prosperity. Such optimism is at odds with the historical record and seems particularly inappropriate for the current path of “just let AI happen,” which focuses primarily on automation (replacing people). We must recognize that there is no singular, inevitable path of development for new technology. And, assuming that the goal is to sustainably improve economic outcomes for more people, what policies would put AI development on the right path, with greater focus on enhancing what all workers can do?" (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Metaverse revolution and the digital transformation: intersectional analysis of Industry 5.0 (2023)
Agarwal, Ayushi; Alathur, Sreejith;Zitatform
Agarwal, Ayushi & Sreejith Alathur (2023): Metaverse revolution and the digital transformation: intersectional analysis of Industry 5.0. In: Transforming Government : People, Process and Policy, Jg. 17, H. 4, S. 688-707. DOI:10.1108/TG-03-2023-0036
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"Purpose: This study aims to investigate metaverse elements affecting digital transformation and examine how the metaverses ’ enabled digital transformation affects Industry 5.0. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts intersectional research methodologies to understand how metaverse technologies facilitate digital transformation and contribute to Industry 5.0. The Metaverse literature is bibliometrically analyzed to identify the intersection of digital transformation and components of Industry 5.0. Findings The conceptualization of the metaverse, its ecosystem and its enabling technologies are consistent with the human-centric, resilient and sustainable vision of the industrial revolution. The findings show that scientific research into digital transformation contributes to refining potential conflicts and tensions that may arise at the intersection of the metaverse and Industry 5.0. Research limitations/implications Study have significant implications for digital transformation research, as transformation studies help to fine-tune emerging technologies such as the metaverse for the industrial revolution. Based on the findings, the authors have provided a threat model for the Sustainable Metaverse Revolution. Social implications The utility of metaverse technologies in industrial revolutions necessitates the formulation of business model policies that promote the metaverse-enabled digital transformation. Policy recommendations for integrated development approaches are also provided in this paper. Originality/value The metaverse-enabled digital transformation and its implications for the industrial revolution are less reported. The current study addresses the importance of such intersectional studies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Turing Transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Augmentation, and Skill Premiums (2023)
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Gans, Joshua S.; Goldfarb, Avi;Zitatform
Agrawal, Ajay K., Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb (2023): The Turing Transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Augmentation, and Skill Premiums. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 31767), Cambridge, Mass, 12 S.
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"We ask whether a technical objective of using human performance of tasks as a benchmark for AI performance will result in the negative outcomes highlighted in prior work in terms of jobs and inequality. Instead, we argue that task automation, especially when driven by AI advances, can enhance job prospects and potentially widen the scope for employment of many workers. The neglected mechanism we highlight is the potential for changes in the skill premium where AI automation of tasks exogenously improves the value of the skills of many workers, expands the pool of available workers to perform other tasks, and, in the process, increases labor income and potentially reduces inequality. We label this possibility the “Turing Transformation.” As such, we argue that AI researchers and policymakers should not focus on the technical aspects of AI applications and whether they are directed at automating human-performed tasks or not and, instead, focus on the outcomes of AI research. In so doing, our goal is not to diminish human-centric AI research as a laudable goal. Instead, we want to note that AI research that uses a human-task template with a goal to automate that task can often augment human performance of other tasks and whole jobs. The distributional effects of technology depend more on which workers have tasks that get automated than on the fact of automation per se." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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New Work(Load)?: Gestaltungsansätze für selbstorganisierte Formen der Arbeitsorganisation (2023)
Ahlers, Elke;Zitatform
Ahlers, Elke (2023): New Work(Load)? Gestaltungsansätze für selbstorganisierte Formen der Arbeitsorganisation. (WSI policy brief 78), Düsseldorf, 15 S.
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"Ziel dieses Policy Briefs ist, die veränderten Arbeitskulturen der digitalen Arbeitswelt und die dadurch entstehenden Arbeitsbelastungen aufzuzeigen. Kapitel 2 gibt dazu einen einführenden Überblick. Im Anschluss daran wird auch das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Selbstorganisation, Eigenverantwortung, Leistung und den entstehenden sozialen und gesundheitlichen Risiken thematisiert (Kapitel 3). Darauf aufbauend werden passende Gestaltungsansätze Guter Arbeit (Kapitel 4) sowie ein partizipationsorientiertes Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement (Kapitel 6) skizziert. Zusammenfassend werden in einem Fazit Gestaltungsnotwendigkeiten aufgezeigt" (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe (2023)
Albanesi, Stefania; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana; Wabitsch, Alena; Dias da Silva, Antonio;Zitatform
Albanesi, Stefania, Antonio Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo & Alena Wabitsch (2023): New Technologies and Jobs in Europe. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16227), Bonn, 58 S.
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"We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased in occupations more exposed to AI. This is particularly the case for occupations with a relatively higher proportion of younger and skilled workers. This evidence is in line with the Skill Biased Technological Change theory. While there exists heterogeneity across countries, only very few countries show a decline in employment shares of occupations more exposed to AI-enabled automation. Country heterogeneity for this result seems to be linked to the pace of technology diffusion and education, but also to the level of product market regulation (competition) and employment protection laws. In contrast to the findings for employment, we find little evidence for a relationship between wages and potential exposures to new technologies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mutualism, class composition, and the reshaping of worker organisation in platform work and the gig economy (2023)
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Alberti, Gabriella & Simon Joyce (2023): Mutualism, class composition, and the reshaping of worker organisation in platform work and the gig economy. In: Global Labour Journal, Jg. 14, H. 3, S. 220-235. DOI:10.15173/glj.v14i3.5332
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"This article contributes an understanding of mutualism as a foundational element in emergent worker collectivism. We challenge mainstream institutionalist accounts in industrial relations, especially from the Global North, that downplay processes of bottom-up regeneration of working-class organization. We discuss compositional accounts of class formation and examine previous understandings of mutualism, then apply our conceptual framework to evidence from international literature and our own research on platform work in Italy and the UK. Three important themes emerge in understanding worker self-organization: the demographics of the workforce, including migration backgrounds and social ties beyond the workplace; the existence of social relations in the ethnic/political/local community; and the relevance of free spaces of resource sharing and recomposition in the absence of a fixed place of work. We conclude that an understanding of mutualism can help to grasp emergent solidarities among new groups of workers within and beyond both platform work and trade unions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Souveränitätsgewinne oder Freiheitsverluste – wohin treibt der Arbeitsmarkt? (2023)
Allmendinger, Jutta; Schroeder, Wolfgang;Zitatform
Allmendinger, Jutta & Wolfgang Schroeder (2023): Souveränitätsgewinne oder Freiheitsverluste – wohin treibt der Arbeitsmarkt? In: J. Legrand, B. Linden & H.-J. Arlt (Hrsg.) (2023): Transformation und Emanzipation, S. 113-124. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-39911-5_10
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"Die Arrangements der Plattformökonomie stehen für eine weitreichende Transformation, an deren Ende sich das rechtliche und soziale Band der Erwerbsarbeit auflöst. Solange die Plattformarbeit eher ein Randphänomen bleibt, wird die regulierte Arbeitsgesellschaft nicht grundlegend infrage gestellt. Entwickelt sich dieses Phänomen aber in der heutigen Form ungezügelt weiter, werden unsere Prinzipien des Sozialversicherungsstaats bedroht. Die neuen Konstellationen von Beschäftigung, Managementstrategien und Interessenvertretung führen dann zu Veränderungen, die das etablierte Akteurs- und Institutionengefüge sprengen und sich herkömmlichen sozialpartnerschaftlichen Aushandlungsformen und politischer Regulierung entziehen. Eine Arbeitspolitik der Souveränität braucht Antworten, die den Kontext der Akteure und Institutionen stärkt. Davon wird es abhängen, ob die Freiheitspotenziale erschlossen werden können. Dafür gibt es Ansätze, wie die bald weltweit verortete Initiative von Fairwork zeigt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer)
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How new ways of working during COVID-19 affect employee well-being via technostress, need for recovery, and work engagement (2023)
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Andrulli, Rémi & Ruud Gerards (2023): How new ways of working during COVID-19 affect employee well-being via technostress, need for recovery, and work engagement. In: Computers in Human Behavior, Jg. 139. DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107560
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"COVID-19 led to a surge in employees experiencing New Ways of Working (NWW), as many had to work from home supported by ICT. This paper studies how experiencing NWW during COVID-19 affected job-related affective well-being (JAWS) for a sample of employees of the Dutch working population. Hypotheses are tested using Preacher and Hayes' (Behav Res Methods 40 (3):879–891, 2008) bootstrap method, including technostress, need for recovery and work engagement as serial mediators. The results show that higher levels of NWW relate to higher JAWS, to more feelings of positive well-being (PAWS), and less feelings of negative well-being (NAWS). Much of these relations is indirect, via reduced technostress and need for recovery, and increased work engagement. Distinguishing the separate facets of NWW and their relations to PAWS/NAWS, the results show that NWW facets management of output, access to colleagues and access to information directly relate to less negative well-being. However, as the NWW facet time- and location-independent work negatively relates to feelings of positive well-being, NWW as a bundle of facets is not a set-and-forget strategy. Therefore, this study recommends that NWW be supplemented with regular monitoring of employees' well-being, technostress, need for recovery and work engagement." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does Robotization Affect Job Quality?: Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets (2023)
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Antón, José-Ignacio, Enrique Fernández-Macías & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (2023): Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 62, H. 3, S. 233-256. DOI:10.1111/irel.12324
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"Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995–2005 combining information from the World Robotics Survey and the European Working Conditions Survey. In order to deal with the possible endogeneity of robot deployment, we employ an instrumental variables strategy, using the robot exposure by sector in other developed countries as an instrument. Our results indicate that robotization has a negative impact on the quality of work in the dimension of work intensity and no relevant impact on the domains of physical environment or skills and discretion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Transformation in bewegten Zeiten: Nachhaltige Arbeit als wichtigste Ressource (2023)
Arntz, Melanie ; Walwei, Ulrich ; Kaiser, Anna; Horvat, Sinischa; Stowasser, Sascha; Schroeder, Wolfgang; Evans, Michaela; Mallmann, Luitwin; Donner, Franz; Möreke, Mathias; Friedrich, Alexandra; Pfeiffer, Sabine ; Rothe, Isabel;Zitatform
Arntz, Melanie, Franz Donner, Michaela Evans, Alexandra Friedrich, Sinischa Horvat, Anna Kaiser, Luitwin Mallmann, Mathias Möreke, Sabine Pfeiffer, Isabel Rothe, Wolfgang Schroeder, Sascha Stowasser & Ulrich Walwei (2023): Transformation in bewegten Zeiten. Nachhaltige Arbeit als wichtigste Ressource. Berlin, 129 S.
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"Der erste Bericht des Rats der Arbeitswelt im Mai 2021 stand vor allem unter dem Eindruck der Covid19-Pandemie. Spätestens seit dem Angriff auf die Ukraine fokussieren sich Diskussionen zu Wirtschaft und Arbeitswelt auf den Umgang mit steigenden Energiepreisen und zunehmenden Lieferengpässen. Die kurzfristige Krisenbewältigung geht einher mit einer umfassenden und langfristigeren Transformation der Arbeitswelt vor dem Hintergrund des sich verschärfenden demografischen Wandels, der Digitalisierung und Dekarbonisierung. Unter Berücksichtigung aktueller Krisenproblematiken stehen diese Auswirkungen der digitalen und ökologischen Transformation auf die Arbeitswelt in Zeiten der Arbeitskräfteknappheit im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Arbeitswelt-Berichts. Der Bericht setzt sich erstens mit übergeordneten Fragen von Angebot und Nachfrage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Zuge der beiden Transformationen auseinander und untersucht in diesem Zusammenhang auch, inwiefern sich Anforderungen an Kompetenzen und Qualifikationen verändern. Da es vor allem die Betriebe und ihre Beschäftigten sind, die die Transformation umsetzen und bewältigen müssen, steht zweitens der Betrieb als Transformationsort sowie die betriebliche Gestaltung von Transformationsprozessen im Mittelpunkt." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities (2023)
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Arntz, Melanie, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer & Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (2023): Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities. In: Journal of labor economics online erschienen am 21.08.2023, S. 1-41. DOI:10.1086/727490
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"This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by increasing the returns to skills relative to the returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, the introduction of computer technologies improved the access to technology-adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also show that this significantly contributed to a decline in the overall wage penalty experienced by workers from disadvantaged parental back-grounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill-upgrading, do not explain these findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Technostress and Job Performance: Understanding the Negative Impacts and Strategic Responses in the Workplace (2023)
Atrian, Armita; Ghobbeh, Saleh;Zitatform
Atrian, Armita & Saleh Ghobbeh (2023): Technostress and Job Performance: Understanding the Negative Impacts and Strategic Responses in the Workplace. (arXiv papers), 13 S.
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"This study delves into the increasingly pertinent issue of technostress in the workplace and its multifaceted impact on job performance. Technostress, emerging from the rapid integration of technology in professional settings, is identified as a significant stressor affecting employees across various industries. The research primarily focuses on the ways in which technostress influences job performance, both negatively and positively, depending on the context and individual coping mechanisms. Through a blend of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including surveys and in-depth interviews, the study examines the experiences of employees from diverse sectors. It highlights how technostress manifests in different forms: from anxiety and frustration due to constant connectivity to the pressure of adapting to new technologies. The paper also explores the dual role of technology as both a facilitator and a hindrance in the workplace. Significant findings indicate that technostress adversely impacts job performance, leading to decreased productivity, diminished job satisfaction, and increased turnover intentions. However, the study also uncovers that strategic interventions, such as training programs, supportive leadership, and fostering a positive technological culture, can mitigate these negative effects. These interventions not only help in managing technostress but also in harnessing the potential of technology for enhanced job performance. Furthermore, the research proposes a model outlining the relationship between technostress, coping mechanisms, and job performance. This model serves as a framework for organizations to understand and address the challenges posed by technostress. The study concludes with recommendations for future research, particularly in exploring the long-term effects of technostress and the efficacy of various coping strategies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Gender Diversity? Evidence from Two Field Experiments on Recruitment in Tech (2023)
Avery, Mallory; Vecci, Joseph; Leibbrandt, Andreas;Zitatform
Avery, Mallory, Andreas Leibbrandt & Joseph Vecci (2023): Does Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Gender Diversity? Evidence from Two Field Experiments on Recruitment in Tech. (Discussion paper / Monash University, Department of Economics 2023-09), Clayton, 69 S.
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"The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI in recruitment impacts gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than doubling the fraction of top applicants that are women. This change is generated by better outcomes for women in both supply and demand. On the supply side, we observe that the use of AI reduces the gender gap in application completion rates. Complementary survey evidence suggests that this is driven by female jobseekers believing that there is less bias in recruitment when assessed by AI instead of human evaluators. On the demand side, we find that providing evaluators with applicants' AI scores closes the gender gap in assessments that otherwise disadvantage female applicants. Finally, we show that the AI tool would have to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition (2023)
Babina, Tania; Fedyk, Anastassia; Hodson, James; He, Alex X.;Zitatform
Babina, Tania, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex X. He & James Hodson (2023): Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 31325), Cambridge, Mass, 47 S.
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"We study the shifts in U.S. firms' workforce composition and organization associated with the use of AI technologies. To do so, we leverage a unique combination of worker resume and job postings datasets to measure firm-level AI investments and workforce composition variables, such as educational attainment, specialization, and hierarchy. We document that firms with higher initial shares of highly-educated workers and STEM workers invest more in AI. As firms invest in AI, they tend to transition to more educated workforces, with higher shares of workers with undergraduate and graduate degrees, and more specialization in STEM fields and IT skills. Furthermore, AI investments are associated with a flattening of the firms' hierarchical structure, with significant increases in the share of workers at the junior level and decreases in shares of workers in middle-management and senior roles. Overall, our results highlight that adoption of AI technologies is associated with significant reorganization of firms' workforces." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Post-digitales Management: Arbeit an den Schnittstellen einer Produktionsorganisation (2023)
Baecker, Dirk; Elsholz, Uwe; Locher, Maximilian; Thomas, Martina;Zitatform
Baecker, Dirk, Uwe Elsholz, Maximilian Locher & Martina Thomas (Hrsg.) (2023): Post-digitales Management. Arbeit an den Schnittstellen einer Produktionsorganisation. Wiesbaden: Imprint: Springer VS, XII, 300 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-40707-0
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"Diese Open-Access-Publikation handelt von Digitalisierungsprojekten in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Es werden Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeobachtungen in Beiträgen, Interviews und Handouts von Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern präsentiert. Die Herausgebenden Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker ist Seniorprofessor für Organisations- und Gesellschaftstheorie an der Zeppelin Universität. Prof. Dr. Uwe Elsholz lehrt am Institut für Bildungswissenschaft und Medienforschung an der FernUniversität in Hagen. Maximilian Locher, M.A., ist Transformationssekretär in der Bezirksleitung der IG Metall Baden-Württemberg. Martina Thomas, M.A., ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Lehrgebiet Lebenslanges Lernen an der FernUniversität in Hagen." (Verlagsangaben)
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Factors Influencing Labor Share: Automation, Task Innovation, and Elasticity of Substitution (2023)
Baek, Seungjin; Jeong, Deokjae;Zitatform
Baek, Seungjin & Deokjae Jeong (2023): Factors Influencing Labor Share: Automation, Task Innovation, and Elasticity of Substitution. (MPRA paper / University Library of Munich 118730), München, 51 S.
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"This paper explores the underlying factors contributing to the recent decline in labor share, focusing specifically on the roles of automation and the development of new tasks that are exclusive to humans. First, our paper strengthens the argument that automation has a negative impact on labor share. Second, we are the first to empirically estimate the influence of new human-exclusive tasks on labor share. Our findings suggest that the positive impact of human-exclusive tasks dominates the negative impact brought about by automation. Third, we find that the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital is less than one, offering a coherent framework for predicting how various factors ---capital price, robot price, and wages--- impact labor share. We identify two distinct mechanisms through which robots negatively affect labor share: automation and a reduction in the price of robots. Our general equilibrium model predicts that the latter will gain increasing importance in the future as robots become more prevalent. Lastly, we estimate the elasticity of substitution between tasks to be one, empirically validating an assumption that many existing studies have made." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Evolution of Work from Home (2023)
Barrero, José María; Davis, Steven J.; Bloom, Nicholas;Zitatform
Barrero, José María, Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis (2023): The Evolution of Work from Home. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 37, H. 4, S. 23-49. DOI:10.1257/jep.37.4.23
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"Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20–64 years old, as of mid-2023. That’s about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s. We first explain why the big shift to work from home has endured rather than reverting to prepandemic levels. We then consider how work-from-home rates vary by worker age, sex, education, parental status, industry and local population density, and why it is higher in the United States than other countries. We also discuss some implications for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, US business executives anticipate modest increases in work-from-home rates at their own companies. Other factors that portend an enduring shift to work from home include the ongoing adaptation of managerial practices and further advances in technologies, products, and tools that support remote work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Industrie 5.0 (2023)
Becker, Marco; Daube, Carl Heinz; Reinking, Ernst;Zitatform
Becker, Marco, Carl Heinz Daube & Ernst Reinking (2023): Industrie 5.0. (EconStor Preprints 270296), Kiel, 12 S.
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"Spätestens seit der Etablierung von ChatGPT als eine für die breite Masse sowohl der Unternehmen als auch der Bevölkerung gleichermaßen interessante Anwendung der Künstlichen Intelligenz im November 2022 neigt sich die Epoche der Industrie 4.0 dem Ende entgegen. In diesem Working Paper werden die Grenzen der Industrie 4.0 aufgezeigt und die Potenziale der Industrie 5.0 analysiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Risks to job quality from digital technologies: Are industrial relations in Europe ready for the challenge? (2023)
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Berg, Janine, Francis Green, Laura Nurski & David A. Spencer (2023): Risks to job quality from digital technologies: Are industrial relations in Europe ready for the challenge? In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 29, H. 4, S. 347-365. DOI:10.1177/09596801231178904
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"We examine job quality effects of new digital technologies, using the European frame of seven job quality domains: Pay, Working Time Quality, Prospects, Skills and Discretion, Work Intensity, Social Environment, and Physical Environment. Theoretical effects are ambivalent across all domains. The analysis of these effects confirms that digital technologies can both improve and harm job quality depending on how they are used. In light of this analysis and to think through the challenge of regulating digital technologies, we review emerging regulations across several European countries. Drawing on the principles of human-centred design, we argue that worker participation is important for securing good job quality outcomes, at both the innovation and adoption stages. We also consider the application of data protection legislation to the regulation of job quality. Overall, the paper extends debate about the future of work beyond employment and pay, on to a consideration of job quality more broadly." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Data-Driven Workplace and the Case for Worker Technology Rights (2023)
Bernhardt, Annette; Suleiman, Reem; Kresge, Lisa;Zitatform
Bernhardt, Annette, Lisa Kresge & Reem Suleiman (2023): The Data-Driven Workplace and the Case for Worker Technology Rights. In: ILR review, Jg. 76, H. 1, S. 3-29. DOI:10.1177/00197939221131558
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"Employers increasingly use digital technologies in the workplace to capture and analyze worker data, electronically monitor their workers, and manage them using algorithms. In this article, the authors analyze employers’ use of data-driven systems in a diverse set of industries and identify a range of potential harms to workers, including bias and discrimination, de-skilling, unsafe work speeds, and loss of autonomy and dignity. In light of the current absence of regulation or oversight, the authors argue that workers deserve a robust set of 21st-century labor standards regarding digital technologies. They lay out a detailed public policy framework that establishes worker rights and employer responsibilities to ensure that the data-driven workplace benefits, rather than harms, workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Coworking Atmospheres: On the Interplay of Curated Spaces and the View of Coworkers as Space-acting Subjects (2023)
Bernhardt, Alexandra;Zitatform
Bernhardt, Alexandra (2023): Coworking Atmospheres. On the Interplay of Curated Spaces and the View of Coworkers as Space-acting Subjects. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 475 S.
Abstract
"The study by Alexandra Bernhardt deals with coworking spaces and their atmospheres. In addition to a comprehensive consideration of the role of atmospheres, the special significance of community in the context of these work spaces is examined in more detail. Two case studies in urban coworking spaces form the core of the investigation, following a qualitative research design oriented towards ethnography and a plurality of methods. In the context of the analysis, on the one hand, what constitutes coworking in everyday life and thus the new communality at work is considered: relevant practices and rituals, spatial arrangements and atmospheres are elaborated in their composition. On the other hand, coworkers, their spatial actions, and the attitudes associated with them come into closer focus: It is shown how users access coworking spaces as work and community spaces and what role atmospheres play. In addition, social entities are highlighted that are taken up by coworkers in relation to their coworking space and that help shape everyday coworking space life. Tensions that arise from the coexistence of community and service logic are also uncovered, and how they are dealt with is examined in more detail." (Publisher information, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Jetzt bloß nicht den Anschluss verlieren! – Status quo, Potenziale und Herausforderungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz (2023)
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Bertschek, Irene (2023): Jetzt bloß nicht den Anschluss verlieren! – Status quo, Potenziale und Herausforderungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz. In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Jg. 103, H. 8, S. 518-520. DOI:10.2478/wd-2023-0149
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"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to be the next general purpose technology. The U.S. and China are important players in the development of AI. Germany has a vibrant AI startup scene and is among the first third of EU countries in applying AI technologies. In order not to lose touch with international developments, Germany should work toward creating research- and innovation-friendly framework conditions. Appropriate measures include improving data availability, building AI expertise and enabling flexible regulation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Digitalisierung des Handwerks auf dem Land: Ergebnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen (2023)
Bischoff, Thore Sören; Thonipara, Anita;Zitatform
Bischoff, Thore Sören & Anita Thonipara (2023): Digitalisierung des Handwerks auf dem Land. Ergebnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen. (ifh Forschungsbericht / Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand & Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen 12), Göttingen, 18 S. DOI:10.47952/gro-publ-129
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"Die Digitalisierung ländlicher Handwerksbetriebe hat eine große Bedeutung für deren zukünftige Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und spielt damit eine wichtige Rolle für die Entwicklung ländlicher und strukturschwacher Regionen. Die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes „Digitalisierung des Handwerks auf dem Land – DiHaLa“ zeigen die spezifische Handwerksstruktur des ländlichen Raumes, charakterisieren die Digitalisierung in Handwerksbetrieben als einen schrittweisen Prozess, zeigen die Heterogenität im Digitalisierungsverhalten der Betriebe und identifizieren die spezifischen Treiber der Digitalisierung des ländlichen Handwerks. Ausgehend von diesen Ergebnissen können für die Digitalisierungsförderung ländlicher Handwerksbetriebe drei übergeordnete Handlungsrahmen abgeleitet werden: Diese umschließen die digitale Infrastruktur, die Handwerksstruktur im ländlichen Raum sowie die Ausrichtung einer Förderstrategie zwischen Breiten- und Spitzenförderung. Innerhalb dieser Handlungsrahmen kann die Digitalisierung des Handwerks auf dem Land innerhalb von vier Handlungsfeldern gefördert werden: Handlungsfeld 1: Einstieg in die Digitalisierung. Der Einstieg in die Digitalisierung löst häufig weitere Digitalisierungsschritte aus. Die Unterstützung des Digitalisierungseinstiegs ländlicher Handwerksbetriebe muss sich daher am Ausgangspunkt der Digitalisierung des Betriebes orientieren. Dieser unterscheidet sich häufig stark nach Gewerk. Handlungsfeld 2: Digitale Kompetenzen. Die Digitalisierungsförderung ländlicher Handwerksbetriebe sollte insbesondere den Aufbau digitaler Kompetenzen fördern. Diese sind wesentliche Treiber der Digitalisierung im Allgemeinen und fehlen häufig in ländlichen Betrieben. Ein konsequenter Ausbau der digitalen und hybriden Weiterbildungs- und Lernformate ist unabdingbar, um die Betriebe und Mitarbeitenden in ländlichen Räumen zu erreichen. Handlungsfeld 3: Überblick über Möglichkeiten. Die Förderung der Digitalisierung ländlicher Handwerksbetriebe umschließt das Aufzeigen der gewerke- und betriebsspezifischen Möglichkeiten für Digitalisierungsmaßnahmen und bestehende Fördermaßnahmen. Bei der Verfolgung einer Breitenförderung sollten Unterstützungsformate und die Digitalisierungsberatung den Betrieben dabei helfen, einen besseren Überblick über die Digitalisierung, deren Nutzen für den Betrieb, und Fördermöglichkeiten zu bekommen. Handlungsfeld 4: Geschäftsführende als Gatekeeper. Die Förderung der Digitalisierung ländlicher Handwerksbetriebe sollte insbesondere bei den Kompetenzen und der Bereitschaft für die Digitalisierung der Geschäftsführenden ansetzen. Diese sind in ländlichen Handwerksbetrieben meist zentrale Akteure bei der Digitalisierung und für den Austausch von Wissen verantwortlich." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Contradictory effects of technological change across developed countries (2023)
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Blien, Uwe, Oliver Ludewig & Anja Rossen (2023): Contradictory effects of technological change across developed countries. In: Review of International Economics, Jg. 31, H. 2, S. 580-608., 2022-08-31. DOI:10.1111/roie.12638
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"Will productivity gains lead to technological unemployment in a region or to new prosperity? In our article, we formally show that under general assumptions the price elasticity of demand on product markets is decisive: technological change leads to employment growth if product demand is elastic and it leads to employment decline if product demand is inelastic. In our empirical analysis, we use industry-level time series data on output, prices, employment, wages, and national income for nine countries (including Germany, UK, USA) to estimate aggregate Marshallian product demand functions based on IV regressions and state space models with time-varying coefficients. The resulting income and price elasticities are used as inputs in a second step in which we estimate the employment effects of productivity changes as interactions with the elasticities. The results correspond to theoretical expectations: demand is generally inelastic and the employment effect of technological progress is therefore moderately negative." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))
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Burnout im Homeoffice: Auswirkungen von Arbeitsanforderungen und Arbeitsressourcen im Homeoffice auf Burnout und Schlafqualität (2023)
Bogodistov, Yevgen; Schweigkofler, Mirjam; Moormann, Jürgen;Zitatform
Bogodistov, Yevgen, Jürgen Moormann & Mirjam Schweigkofler (2023): Burnout im Homeoffice: Auswirkungen von Arbeitsanforderungen und Arbeitsressourcen im Homeoffice auf Burnout und Schlafqualität. In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, Jg. 77, H. 3, S. 375-389. DOI:10.1007/s41449-023-00373-7
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"Die Zahl der Abwesenheiten von Mitarbeitenden aufgrund von Burnout steigt mit jedem Jahr weiter an. Gleichzeitig hat sich aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie der Trend zum Homeoffice als neue Arbeitsform massiv verstärkt. Für Unternehmen entsteht daraus die Notwendigkeit, ihre Mitarbeitenden darin zu unterstützen, mit diesen Veränderungen umzugehen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Auswirkungen von Arbeitsanforderungen (Job Demands) und Arbeitsressourcen (Job Resources) im Homeoffice auf Burnout und Schlafqualität untersucht. Die empirischen Ergebnisse, die mittels einer Online-Umfrage erhoben wurden, zeigen, dass die Arbeitsanforderungen zum Auftreten von persönlichem und arbeitsbezogenem Burnout beitragen, während die Arbeitsressourcen keinen Effekt auf die Linderung von Burnout haben. Die Studie zeigt zudem, dass ein arbeitsbezogener Burnout das Risiko eines persönlichen Burnouts erhöht. Persönlicher Burnout erhöht die Schlaflosigkeit, während arbeitsbezogener Burnout die Schlaflosigkeit nur indirekt beeinflusst. Arbeitsanforderungen und Arbeitsressourcen erhöhen die Schlafprobleme nicht direkt; allerdings verschärfen die Arbeitsanforderungen indirekt (über Burnout) die Schlaflosigkeit. Die in dieser Arbeit gewonnenen Ergebnisse bilden den Grundstein für zukünftige Studien zum Themenbereich Neue Arbeitsformen, Burnout und Schlafqualität." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Structural Labour Market Change, Cognitive Work, and Fertility in Germany (2023)
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Bogusz, Honorata, Anna Matysiak & Michaela Kreyenfeld (2023): Structural Labour Market Change, Cognitive Work, and Fertility in Germany. (Working papers / Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw 2023-08), Warsaw, 44 S.
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"Technological change and globalisation have been transforming the structure of labour demand in favour of workers performing cognitive tasks. Even though past research has found that labour force participation is an important determinant of fertility behaviour, few studies have addressed the fertility effects of the long-term structural changes of labour market. To fill this gap, we measure the cognitive task content of work at the occupation level using data from the Employment Survey of the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB). We link this contextual information with employment and fertility histories of women and men from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2018 (GSOEP). With event history models, we find that fertility transitions of men working in occupations characterised by high cognitive task intensity are accelerated. We also observe elevated birth risks among women in occupations requiring cognitive labour. However, this pattern is more ambiguous, as we find that non-working women also experience elevated birth rates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from US Commuting Zones (2023)
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino; Papadakis, Ioannis; Crinò, Rosario;Zitatform
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra, Rosario Crinò, Gino Gancia & Ioannis Papadakis (2023): Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from US Commuting Zones. (CESifo working paper 10685), München, 41 S.
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"We study the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on employment across US commuting zones over the period 2000-2020. A simple model shows that AI can automate jobs or complement workers, and illustrates how to estimate its effect by exploiting variation in a novel measure of local exposure to AI: job growth in AI-related professions built from detailed occupational data. Using a shift-share instrument that combines industry-level AI adoption with local industry employment, we estimate robust negative effects of AI exposure on employment across commuting zones and time. We find that AI's impact is different from other capital and technologies, and that it works through services more than manufacturing. Moreover, the employment effect is especially negative for low-skill and production workers, while it turns positive for workers at the top of the wage distribution. These results are consistent with the view that AI has contributed to the automation of jobs and to widen inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Das digitale Deutschland - eine Bestandsaufnahme (2023)
Bornschein, Christoph; Hermann, Benjamin; Yilmaz, Yasemin ; Weber, Enzo ; Cleemann, Sebastian; Leyen, Donata von der;Zitatform
Bornschein, Christoph, Sebastian Cleemann, Benjamin Hermann, Donata von der Leyen, Enzo Weber & Yasemin Yilmaz (2023): Das digitale Deutschland - eine Bestandsaufnahme. (BDA-Digitalrat), Berlin, 15 S.
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"In einer zunehmend vernetzten Welt ist die digitale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von entscheidender Bedeutung. In einer umfassenden Bestandsaufnahme analysieren wir Deutschlands aktuelle Positionierung in verschiedenen Bereichen der Digitalisierung, von Infrastruktur und Wirtschaft bis hin zur Bildung und Verwaltung […] Trotz einiger Erfolge schließt Deutschland in Fragen der Digitalisierung und des technologischen Fortschritts ernüchternd ab. Die digitale Bildung hinkt hinterher, der Bedarf an Fachkräften wird nicht gedeckt. Um die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu sichern, sollte die Wirtschaftskraft im Dienst der Transformation mobilisiert werden, wobei der Fokus auf Bildung, Ausbildung und Weiterbildung liegt. Eine durchdachte und nachhaltige Migrationsstrategie könnte den Fachkräftemangel lindern, doch dafür muss Deutschland als Standort attraktiver werden. Ein moderner Staat muss die Digitalisierung und Optimierung seiner Prozesse vorantreiben und seine Daten nutzbar machen. Eine erfolgreiche digitale Zukunft erfordert grundlegende, weitreichende und konsequente Maßnahmen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited (2023)
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Bowlus, Audra, Lance Lochner, Chris Robinson & Eda Suleymanoglu (2023): Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change. The Canonical Model Revisited. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 58, H. 6, S. 1783-1819. DOI:10.3368/jhr.0617-8889r1
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"While influential, the canonical supply–demand model of the wage returns to skill has faced challenges, including theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, counterintuitive paths for skill-biased technical change (SBTC), and an inability to account for observed deviations in college premia for younger versus older workers. We show that using improved estimates of skill prices and supplies that account for variation in skills across cohorts helps to explain the college premium differences between younger versus older workers and produces better out-of-sample predictions, positive elasticities of substitution between high- and low-skill workers, and a more modest role for SBTC. We further show that accounting for recession-induced jumps and trend adjustments in SBTC and linking SBTC to direct measures of information technology investment expenditures yield an improved fit, no puzzling slowdown in SBTC during the early 1990s, and a higher elasticity of substitution between high- and low-skill workers than previous ad hoc assumptions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))
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