Enrique Fernández Macías
@quiquefm.bsky.social
And our working papers series on Labour, Education and Employment: ideas.repec.org/s/ipt/laedte...
JRC Working Papers on Labour, Education and Technology, Joint Research Centre | IDEAS/RePEc
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September 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And our working papers series on Labour, Education and Employment: ideas.repec.org/s/ipt/laedte...
For more info, see our website: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and...
Employment, the nature of work in Europe
The digital and green transitions, along with demographic trends and globalisation, are changing the nature of work in Europe: reshaping labour markets, transforming tasks, occupations and skills, and...
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Digital tools are changing how we work (either in front of computers or using mobile/wearable digital devices), how work is organised (labour platforms and new forms of outsourcing) and controlled (digital monitoring, algorithmic management). The challenge is job quality, not mass unemployment.
September 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Digital tools are changing how we work (either in front of computers or using mobile/wearable digital devices), how work is organised (labour platforms and new forms of outsourcing) and controlled (digital monitoring, algorithmic management). The challenge is job quality, not mass unemployment.
We argue that robots are not destroying jobs in a significant way, computers are not polarising labour markets, and AI tends to complement rather than substitute labour. In our view, the main impact of digital technologies has been on the nature and organisation of work, not on employment numbers.
September 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We argue that robots are not destroying jobs in a significant way, computers are not polarising labour markets, and AI tends to complement rather than substitute labour. In our view, the main impact of digital technologies has been on the nature and organisation of work, not on employment numbers.
In the research summarised in this report, we try to confront dominant narratives with carefully compiled evidence. In the last few years there has been a kind of "automation anxiety" which in our view is completely unsupported by data.
September 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the research summarised in this report, we try to confront dominant narratives with carefully compiled evidence. In the last few years there has been a kind of "automation anxiety" which in our view is completely unsupported by data.