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What to do when the robots come? Non-formal education in jobs affected by automation

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  • Sierdjan Koster
  • Claudia Brunori

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Purpose - Ongoing automation processes may render a fair share of the existing jobs redundant or change their nature. This begs the question to what extent employees affected invest in training in order to strengthen their labour market position in times of uncertainty. Given the different national labour market regimes and institutions, there may be an important geographical dimension to the opportunities to cope with the challenges set by automation. The purpose of this study is to address both issues. Design/methodology/approach - Using data from the 2016 European labour Force Survey, the authors estimate with logit and multi-level regression analyses how the automation risk of a worker's job is associated with the propensity of following non-formal education/training. The authors allow this relationship to vary across European countries. Findings - The results show that employees in jobs vulnerable to automation invest relatively little in training. Also, there are significant differences across Europe in both the provision of training in general and the effect of automation on training provision. Originality/value - While there is quite a lot of research on the structural labour market effects of automation, relatively little is known about the actions that employees take to deal with the uncertainty they are faced with. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of such mechanisms underlying the structural macro-level labour-market dynamics.

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  • Sierdjan Koster & Claudia Brunori, 2021. "What to do when the robots come? Non-formal education in jobs affected by automation," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 42(8), pages 1397-1419, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijmpps:ijm-06-2020-0314
    DOI: 10.1108/IJM-06-2020-0314
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    Cited by:

    1. Bürgisser, Reto, 2023. "Policy Responses to Technological Change in the Workplace," SocArXiv kwxn2_v1, Center for Open Science.
    2. Yang, Jia & Pei, Yu & Qiang, Wei, 2024. "The impact of automation on human capital investment," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 62(PB).

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