Sustainable employment in the age of digitalisation: challenges, obstacles and opportunities KU Leuven
Context: Automation and the digital revolution affect the nature and quality of jobs. As workers are reallocated from declining sectors and occupations to growing ones, skill mismatches and structural unemployment tend to occur, and income inequality and poverty levels may rise as the digital revolution mainly destroys jobs in the middle of the wage distribution. Moreover, new technologies automate certain tasks rather than whole occupations, ...