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 und die Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitsmarkt? Welche Qualifikationen werden künftig benötigt? Wie verändern sich Tätigkeiten und Berufe? Welche arbeits- und sozialrechtlichen Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus?
Dieses Themendossier dokumentiert Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema in den verschiedenen Wirtschaftsbereichen und Regionen.
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- Gesamtbetrachtungen/Positionen
- Arbeitsformen, Arbeitszeit und Gesundheit
- Qualifikationsanforderungen und Berufe
- Arbeitsplatz- und Beschäftigungseffekte
- Wirtschaftsbereiche
- Arbeits- und sozialrechtliche Aspekte / digitale soziale Sicherung
- Deutschland
- Andere Länder/ internationaler Vergleich
- Besondere Personengruppen
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Systematic literature review on the digital transformation of the personnel selection process (2025)
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Baranyi, Virág (2025): Systematic literature review on the digital transformation of the personnel selection process. In: German Journal of Human Resource Management, S. 1-32. DOI:10.1177/23970022251363012
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"Digital Transformation technologies (DT technologies) are reshaping work processes, including personnel selection, an area traditionally viewed as inherently human-centric. While prior studies have examined various digital technologies in personnel selection, they have not provided sufficient evidence on the different levels of digitalization in selection processes and the factors influencing organizations’ adoption decisions. To address these gaps, this study systematically reviews 94 Scopus-indexed studies to analyze how DT technologies are applied across selection stages, categorizing practices into Manual, Digitalized, and Digitally Transformed approaches. By further distinguishing between Digital Technologies and AI Enhancements, this study offers a structured framework for understanding how organizations integrate digital technologies into selection and what drives or hinders their adoption. The findings highlight both the benefits (efficiency gains, potential bias reduction, improved candidate experience) and challenges (ethical concerns, algorithmic bias, technical and cultural barriers, and candidate perceptions) associated with these technologies, providing insights for both academic research and HR practice." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Robotic capital - skill complementarity (2025)
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Battisti, Michele, Massimo Del Gatto, Antonio Francesco Gravina & Christopher F. Parmeter (2025): Robotic capital - skill complementarity. In: Macroeconomic Dynamics, Jg. 29, S. e54. DOI:10.1017/s1365100524000567
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"Relying upon an original (country-sector-year) measure of robotic capital (RK), we investigate the degree of complementarity/substitutability between robots and workers at different skill levels. We employ nonparametric methods to estimate elasticity of substitution patterns between RK and skilled/unskilled labor over the period 1995–2009. We show that: i) on average, RK exhibits less substitutability with skilled workers compared to unskilled workers, indicating a phenomenon of “RK-Skill complementarity”. This pattern holds in a global context characterized by significant heterogeneity; ii) the dynamic of “RK-Skill complementarity” has increased since the early 2000s; iii) the observed strengthening is more prominent in OECD countries, as opposed to non-OECD countries, and in the Manufacturing sector, compared to non-Manufacturing industries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Ethical Integration in Public Sector AI. The Case of Algorithmic Systems in the Public Employment Service in Germany (2025)
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Bauer, Bernhard, Sabrina Mühlbauer, Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl, Enzo Weber & Paula Ziethmann (2025): Ethical Integration in Public Sector AI. The Case of Algorithmic Systems in the Public Employment Service in Germany. (IAB-Discussion Paper 12/2025), Nürnberg, 32 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2512
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"Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit der ethischen Gestaltung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) im öffentlichen Sektor, wobei der Fokus auf den öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltungen liegt. Während KI zunehmend zur effizienteren Gestaltung von Verwaltungsprozessen und zur Verbesserung der Dienstleistungserbringung eingesetzt wird, wirft ihre Anwendung in der Arbeitsvermittlung grundlegende Fragen hinsichtlich Fairness, Rechenschaftspflicht und demokratischer Legitimität auf. Das EU-Gesetz zur Künstlichen Intelligenz (EU AI Act) unterstreicht die Dringlichkeit der Bewältigung dieser Herausforderungen, indem es KI-Systeme, die die Arbeitsvermittlung betreffen, als risikoreich einstuft und damit strenge Schutzmaßnahmen vorschreibt, um Diskriminierung zu verhindern und Transparenz zu gewährleisten. Das zentrale Ziel dieser Studie ist es zu untersuchen, wie ethische und soziale Überlegungen systematisch in die Entwicklung und Umsetzung von KI im öffentlichen Sektor eingebunden werden können. Anhand der deutschen öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltung als Fallstudie stellen wir den Ansatz „Embedded Ethics and Social Sciences” (EE) vor. Dieser Ansatz integriert ethische Überlegungen und den Bezug zur Praxis bereits in die Entwicklung des Modells. Qualitative Erkenntnisse aus Interviews mit Vermittlungsfachkräften verdeutlichen die soziotechnischen Herausforderungen der Umsetzung, insbesondere die Notwendigkeit, Effizienz mit dem Vertrauen der Bürger:innen in Einklang zu bringen. Auf der Grundlage dieser Erkenntnisse geben wir Empfehlungen für die Gestaltung von KI-Systemen, welche sich aus der Integration ethischer und sozialer Überlegungen in die Systementwicklung ergeben. In diesem Zusammenhang diskutieren wir Fragen der Datenethik und Bias, der Fairness und der Rolle erklärbarer KI (XAI). Unsere Analyse zeigt, dass der EE-Ansatz nicht nur die Einhaltung neuer regulatorischer Anforderungen unterstützt, sondern auch die menschliche Aufsicht, die Handlungsfähigkeit und gemeinsame Entscheidungsfindung stärken kann. So deuten die Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass ein ethisch fundiertes Design Fairness, Transparenz und Legitimität in verschiedenen Bereichen der öffentlichen Verwaltung erhöhen kann und somit zu einer verantwortungsvolleren und bürgernahen Umsetzung im digitalen Zeitalter beiträgt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Digital Nomads, the New Frontier of Work in the Digital Age: A Bibliometric Analysis (2025)
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Başaran, Altan (2025): Digital Nomads, the New Frontier of Work in the Digital Age: A Bibliometric Analysis. In: Sustainability, Jg. 17, H. 5. DOI:10.3390/su17051906
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"Digital nomadism is more than just a tourism idea. It represents a new working paradigm in which digital trends are transforming relationships between employers, work, and employees. Our study focuses on digital nomadism and the platforms that enable remote work relationships, which are the result of digitalization. The present study seeks to identify the current research trends and to rationalize future research opportunities in regards to digital nomads. To this end, a bibliometric analysis of available literature from the Scopus and Web of Science databases between 2006 and 2024 will be conducted. The study uses RStudio version 2024.12.0 Build 467 and Biblioshiny as tools to perform the bibliometric analysis of the extracted data. The research findings indicate that the publication of articles demonstrated an annual growth rate of 26.31% between 2006 and 2024. The average number of citations per document is 11.19. The UK, Portugal, Spain, and the USA are the most prominent contributors to digital nomad literature. Even though the conceptual discussions of this phenomenon are carried out in different disciplines, bibliometric analysis is used in our study to observe the areas in which the subject attracts attention in the academic literature and to predict the trends for the future." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Intersecting Shocks: The Combined Labor Market Impacts of Automation and Immigration (2025)
Bennett, Patrick; Johnsen, Julian Vedeler;Zitatform
Bennett, Patrick & Julian Vedeler Johnsen (2025): Intersecting Shocks: The Combined Labor Market Impacts of Automation and Immigration. (CESifo working paper 12217), München, 41 S.
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"We study how the labor market shocks of automation and immigration interact to shape workers' outcomes. Using matched employer –employee data from Norwegian administrative registers, we combine animmigration shock triggered by the European Union's 2004 enlargement with an automation shock based on the adoption of industrial robots across Europe. Although these shocks largely occur in separate industries, we show that automation reduces earnings not only in manufacturing but also in construction, where tasks overlap with robot-exposed sectors. Importantly, workers jointly exposed to automation and immigration suffer earnings losses greater than those facing either shock in isolation. These losses are driven by downward occupational mobility into low-wage services and re-sorting into lower-premium firms. Even within the Norwegian welfare system, the ability of social insurance to offset these long-run earnings declines is limited. Our findings underscore the importance of analyzing labor market shocks jointly, rather than in isolation, to fully understand their distributional consequences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks (2025)
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Bertermann, Alexander, Wolfgang Dauth, Jens Suedekum & Ludger Wößmann (2025): Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 18247), Bonn, 47 S.
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"How do firms and workers adjust to trade and technology shocks? We analyze two mechanisms that have received little attention: training that upgrades skills and early retirement that shifts adjustment costs to public pension systems. We combine novel data on training participation and early retirement in German local labor markets with established measures of exposure to trade competition and robot adoption. Results indicate that negative trade shocks reduce Training - particularly in manufacturing - while robot exposure increases Training - particularly in indirectly affected services. Both shocks raise early retirement among manufacturing workers. Structural change thus induces both productivity-enhancing and productivity-reducing responses, challenging simple narratives of labor market adaptation and highlighting the scope for policy to promote adjustment mechanisms conducive to aggregate productivity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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IKT-Branchenbild 2024: Volkswirtschaftliche Kennzahlen, Innovations- und Gründungsgeschehen (2025)
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Bertschek, Irene, Thomas Niebel, Christian Rammer & Robin Sack (2025): IKT-Branchenbild 2024. Volkswirtschaftliche Kennzahlen, Innovations- und Gründungsgeschehen. (IKT-Branchenbild ... / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz 2024), Berlin, 32 S.
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"Als Anbieter innovativer Produkte und Dienstleistungen stellt die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologiebranche (IKT-Branche) einen entscheidenden Treiber der Digitalisierung der gesamten deutschen Wirtschaft dar. Das IKT-Branchenbild 2024 beleuchtet auch in diesem Jahr die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung sowie das Innovations- und Gründungsgeschehen der IKT-Branche und ordnet die Erkenntnisse im Rahmen eines Vergleichs mit anderen Branchen der deutschen Wirtschaft ein. Die IKT-Branche teilt sich in die beiden Teilbereiche Hardware und Dienstleistungen. Im Jahr 2023 zählten dazu knapp 1,5 Millionen Erwerbstätige, die sich auf rund 100.000 Unternehmen verteilten. Damit stieg die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten und Selbstständigen im Vorjahresvergleich um knapp 33.000. Im selben Zeitraum sank die Zahl der Unternehmen leicht um rund 1.000." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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The dynamics of automation adoption: Firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects (2025)
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Bisio, Laura, Angelo Cuzzola, Marco Grazzi & Daniele Moschella (2025): The dynamics of automation adoption: Firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 173. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104943
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"We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian economy during 2011–2019. We integrate datasets on trade activities, firms’, and workers’ characteristics for the population of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters ’ outcomes within a difference-in-differences design exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation technologies (including robots). We find a positive average adoption effect on the adopters’ employment: firms are, on average, around 3% larger in terms of employment after an automation spike. Crucially, the employment effect is heterogeneous across firms: a positive effect is predominant among small firms, which are around 5% larger five years after the spike; on the contrary, a negative displacement effect is predominant among medium and large firms, with an employment contraction at five years of around -4%. This result can shed light on one potential reason behind the mixed results in the literature, i.e. different size distribution of the samples used. We complete the framework with a 5-digit sector-level analysis showing that adopting automation technologies has an overall weak negative effect on aggregate employment, and with an analysis of the competition effects of automation, showing that non-adopters suffer a loss in sales and employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health (2025)
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Blasco, Sylvie, Julie Rochut & Benedicte Rouland (2025): Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 64, H. 1, S. 40-76. 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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Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy (2025)
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Bonoli, Giuliano, Patrick Emmenegger & Alina Felder-Stindt (2025): Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy. In: Regulation and governance, S. 1-13. DOI:10.1111/rego.70065
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"European economies face the task of providing the necessary skills for the “twin transition ” in a period of skill shortage. As a result, we may expect countries to reorient their labor market policy towards re-skilling. We look for evidence of a reorientation in two relevant policy fields: active labor market policy (ALMP) and adult education (AE). We explore general trends in both fields based on quantitative indicators and compare recent policy developments in four countries with strong ALMP and AE sectors: Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden. We do not observe clear evidence of a general movement away from activation and towards re-skilling in ALMP. However, in AE, we identify several re-skilling initiatives that address skill shortages. Relying on insights from queuing theories of hiring and training, we argue that due to changes in the population targeted by ALMP, the locus of re-skilling policy is increasingly moving towards AE." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Beliefs about Bots: How Employers Plan for AI in White-Collar Work (2025)
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Brull, Eduard, Samuel Maurer & Davud Rostam-Afschar (2025): Beliefs about Bots: How Employers Plan for AI in White-Collar Work. (arXiv papers), 11 S.
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"We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that firms systematically underestimate automatability. Information provision raises risk perceptions, especially for routine-intensive roles. Yet, it leaves short-run hiring plans unchanged. Instead, updated beliefs increase productivity and financial expectations with minor wage adjustments, implying within-firm inequality like limited rent-sharing. Employers also anticipate new tasks in legal tech, compliance, and AI interaction, and report higher training and adoption intentions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence (2025)
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Brynjolfsson, Erik, Bharat Chandar & Ruyu Chen (2025): Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence. (Working Papers / Stanford Digital Economy Lab), Stanford, 57 S.
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"This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from the largest payroll software provider in the United States. We present six facts that characterize these shifts. We find that since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks. In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow. We also find that adjustments occur primarily through employment rather than compensation. Furthermore, employment declines are concentrated in occupations where AI is more likely to automate, rather than augment, human labor. Our results are robust to alternative explanations, such as excluding technology-related firms and excluding occupations amenable to remote work. These six facts provide early, large-scale evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft in Deutschland: Kompetenzbarometer: Fachkräftesituation in Digitalisierungsberufen – Beschäftigungsaufbau und Fachkräftemangel bis 2028: Eine 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) (2025)
Burstedde, Alexander; Tiedemann, Jurek;Zitatform
Burstedde, Alexander & Jurek Tiedemann (2025): Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft in Deutschland: Kompetenzbarometer: Fachkräftesituation in Digitalisierungsberufen – Beschäftigungsaufbau und Fachkräftemangel bis 2028. Eine 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). Köln, 28 S.
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"Digitalisierungsberufe sind für den Erfolg der digitalen Transformation von essenzieller Bedeutung. Sie beschreiben Kompetenzprofile, die benötigt werden, um neue digitale Schlüsseltechnologien zu entwickeln und herzustellen oder durch vertiefte technische Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten deren Nutzung und Verbreitung zu realisieren. Das beinhaltet nicht nur Kompetenzen in Informatik, sondern auch in Elektronik und anderen Bereichen. Diese Studie beschreibt die potenzielle Entwicklung von Beschäftigung und Fachkräftelücke bis 2028, wenn sich die Trends der Jahre 2017 bis 2023 weiter fortsetzen würden." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Automation and segmentation: Downgrading employment quality among the former “insiders” of Western European labour markets (2025)
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Buzzelli, Gregorio (2025): Automation and segmentation: Downgrading employment quality among the former “insiders” of Western European labour markets. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 2. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.70011
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"The literature on labor market segmentation traditionally looks at servitisation as the main structural driver behind the rise of employment precariousness, overlooking another crucial engine of the knowledge-economy transition: the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) revolution. This paper proposes a task-based approach to complement the skill-biased framework usually applied to labor market segmentation, investigating the correlation between occupational exposure to the risk of automation and low-quality employment. The empirical analysis, based on 14 countries sampled from ESS (2002–2018), shows a strong correlation between technological replaceability and low income across all of Western Europe, especially after the Great Recession, while its association with atypical employment is mainly driven by fixed-term contracts in Central and Southern Europe and by part-time arrangements in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian countries. Overall, a “recalibrated” dualisation emerges in Western European labor markets, characterized by the diffusion of low labor earnings and atypical contracts among mid-skill routine workers, besides the low-skill service precariat." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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KI-Jobs in Deutschland: Stagnation statt Boom: Eine Analyse von Online-Stellenanzeigen (2025)
Büchel, Jan; Engler, Jan Felix; Mertens, Armin;Zitatform
Büchel, Jan, Jan Felix Engler & Armin Mertens (2025): KI-Jobs in Deutschland: Stagnation statt Boom. Eine Analyse von Online-Stellenanzeigen. 22 S. DOI:10.11586/2025025
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"Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist eine zentrale Zukunftstechnologie, die mehr Effizienz und Produktivität in Unternehmen ermöglichen kann. Vor dem Hintergrund der angespannten wirtschaftlichen Lage Deutschlands und dem vorliegenden demografiebedingten Fachkräftemangel sollten Unternehmen das Potenzial von KI nutzen, um ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu stärken. Positiv ist, dass im Jahr 2024 etwa jedes fünfte Unternehmen in Deutschland angibt, KI bereits zu nutzen. Der KI-Einsatz benötigt dabei neue Kompetenzen, beispielsweise wenn Unternehmen KI-Lösungen selbst entwickeln möchten. Auch wenn zugekaufte KI-Lösungen im Unternehmen angewendet werden, entstehen Kompetenzbedarfe. Um die Bedarfe der Unternehmen zu erfassen, hat das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung Online-Stellenanzeigen mit Bezug zu KI aus den Jahren 2019 bis 2024 analysiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Cybersicherheit: Kompetenzen gefragter denn je (2025)
Büchel, Jan; Engler, Jan; Engels, Barbara;Zitatform
Büchel, Jan, Barbara Engels & Jan Engler (2025): Cybersicherheit: Kompetenzen gefragter denn je. (IW-Kurzberichte / Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 2025,39), Köln, 3 S.
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"Cyberangriffe treffen deutsche Unternehmen immer stärker – und die reagieren. Zwischen 2019 und 2024 hat sich die Zahl der Online-Stellenanzeigen, in denen Cybersicherheitskompetenzen gefordert werden, von 117.000 auf 203.000 deutlich erhöht. Kompetenzen rund um digitale Sicherheit sind für eine funktionierende Wirtschaft und Verwaltung zentral geworden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Why hours worked decline less after technology shocks? (2025)
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Cardi, Olivier & Romain Restout (2025): Why hours worked decline less after technology shocks? In: Journal of International Economics, Jg. 157. DOI:10.1016/j.jinteco.2025.104095
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"The contractionary effect of technology shocks on hours gradually vanishes over time in OECD countries. To rationalize the decline in hours and its disappearance, we use a VAR-based decomposition of technology shocks into symmetric and asymmetric technology improvements. While hours decline dramatically when technology improves at the same rate across sectors, hours significantly increase when technology improvements occur at different rates. Because they are primarily driven by symmetric technology improvements, permanent technology shocks drive down total hours. Such a decline progressively vanishes due to the growing importance of asymmetric technology shocks. To reach these two conclusions, we simulate a two-sector model which can reproduce the contractionary effect on hours once the economy is internationally open and we allow for production factors’ mobility costs, factor-biased technological change, and home bias. To account for the vanishing decline in hours, we have to let the share of asymmetric technology shocks increase over time." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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Technological innovations and workers’ job insecurity: the moderating role of human resource strategies (2025)
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Caselli, Mauro, Andrea Fracasso, Arianna Marcolin & Sergio Scicchitano (2025): Technological innovations and workers’ job insecurity: the moderating role of human resource strategies. In: Journal of industrial and business economics, Jg. 52, H. 1, S. 153-176. DOI:10.1007/s40812-024-00329-w
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"In this paper, we empirically assess the impact of firms’ technological innovations on the workers’ perceived probability of job loss. We take advantage of a unique dataset based on a large and representative cross-sectional survey covering several characteristics of Italian workers and their firms. We find that a firm ’s technological adoption reduces job insecurity among its surviving workers, and the effect is stronger when the innovation makes tasks simpler and their execution more precise. We also find that the relationship between technological innovation and job insecurity is moderated by human resource strategies, such as training programs, labor-saving automation and dismissal plans adopted after the introduction of the innovation. Thus, workers’ perceptions of job insecurity vary significantly across innovative firms, and firms’ human resource strategies act as arelevant moderating factors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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What workers and robots do: An activity-based analysis of the impact of robotization on changes in local employment (2025)
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Caselli, Mauro, Andrea Fracasso, Sergio Scicchitano, Silvio Traverso & Enrico Tundis (2025): What workers and robots do: An activity-based analysis of the impact of robotization on changes in local employment. In: Research Policy, Jg. 54, H. 1. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2024.105135
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"This work investigates the impact that changes in the local exposure to robots had on changes in Italian employment over the period 2011–2018. It contributes to the debate by providing novel and granular evidence on the impact of robot adoption on new activity-based groups of occupations and by focusing on the overlap between the functional similarities of robot applications and occupations. This framework, consistently centered on workers ’ and robots’ activities, reveals highly heterogeneous effects of robotization, ranging from positive to negative across different groups of occupations, thereby supporting a nuanced and granular reading of this debated phenomenon. In particular, the local share of robot operators increases where the increase in robot adoption is larger, while the local share of workers using intensively their torso decreases." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))
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Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries (2025)
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Chueri, Juliana & Marius R. Busemeyer (2025): Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries. In: Competition and Change, S. 1-18. DOI:10.1177/10245294251318440
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"Platform work has introduced a new dimension of precarity in the labor market, as platform workers face high labor market risks and have limited access to social protection. The expansion of this employment status raises the question of whether platform workers have distinct social policy preferences from workers with similar socioeconomic backgrounds who are not employed in the platform economy. This paper empirically examines how and under what circumstances the social policy preferences of platform workers differ from those of other workers. We find that platform workers are more likely to demand more compensatory labor market policies than regular workers. Also, they are more likely to demand more social investment-type policies than regular and atypical workers who do not engage in the platform economy. We also find evidence for contextual effects: whereas welfare state generosity is associated with weaker demand from platform workers for compensatory labor market policies, it is associated with higher support for social investment. Our results suggest that the expansion of platform work will fuel demands for welfare expansion, specifically focusing on social investment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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- Gesamtbetrachtungen/Positionen
- Arbeitsformen, Arbeitszeit und Gesundheit
- Qualifikationsanforderungen und Berufe
- Arbeitsplatz- und Beschäftigungseffekte
- Wirtschaftsbereiche
- Arbeits- und sozialrechtliche Aspekte / digitale soziale Sicherung
- Deutschland
- Andere Länder/ internationaler Vergleich
- Besondere Personengruppen