Relevance of digitalisation for the federal states in Germany: Adjustments are particularly pressing in Saarland, Thuringia and Baden-Wuerttemberg

Abstract

"The share of tasks that is at risk of computerisation considerably varies across occupations. Because of their specific economic and occupational structures, the potential for substitution is distributed unevenly among different employees in the federal states. Occupations are characterised by a high potential for substitution if currently more than 70 per cent of the tasks could be performed by computers. The share of employees in an occupation with a high potential for substitution varies across the federal states: between 8 per cent in Berlin and more than 20 per cent in Saarland. The higher the importance of manufacturing industries in a federal state, the higher is the share of employees in occupations with a high potential for substitution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Buch, T., Dengler, K. & Matthes, B. (2016): Relevanz der Digitalisierung für die Bundesländer: Saarland, Thüringen und Baden-Württemberg haben den größten Anpassungsbedarf. (IAB-Kurzbericht 14/2016), Nürnberg, 8 p.