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No. 287 | 23 Feb 2023 |
The supply, demand and characteristics of the AI workforce across OECD countries
This report provides representative, cross-country estimates of the artificial intelligence (AI) workforce across OECD countries. The AI workforce is defined as the subset of workers with skills in statistics, computer science and machine learning... |
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No. 286 | 23 Feb 2023 |
Six questions about the demand for artificial intelligence skills in labour markets
This study responds to six key questions about the impact that the demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills is having on labour markets. What are the occupations where AI skills are most relevant? How do different AI-relevant skills combine in... |
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No. 285 | 15 Feb 2023 |
Teleworking through the gender looking glass
This paper takes stock of existing data and research on the gendered dimension of teleworking, to foster efficient data collection and evidence-based monitoring of the phenomenon in the future. Analysing existing data on work from home, teleworking,... |
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No. 284 | 30 Jan 2023 |
Artificial intelligence and labour market matching
While still in its infancy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in labour market matching, whether by private recruiters, public and private employment services, or online jobs boards and platforms. Applications range from writing job... |
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No. 283 | 30 Jan 2023 |
Who pays for higher carbon prices?
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines them in a way that is informative for mapping the gains... |
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No. 282 | 13 Dec 2022 |
What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers?
This paper exploits novel data on the degree of automatability of approximately 100 skills and abilities collected through an original survey of experts in AI, and link them to occupations using information on skill and ability requirements extracted... |
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No. 281 | 15 Nov 2022 |
Swimming skills around the world
Being able to swim empowers individuals to make choices, have agency, and be free to choose core aspects of their life, such as working safely on or near water. It is also associated with lifelong health benefits and reduces the risk of drowning.... |
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No. 280 | 08 Nov 2022 |
Understanding how economic conditions and natural disasters shape environmental attitudes
Understanding adults’ attitudes towards the environment is necessary to gauge the opportunities and challenges of creating effective and politically-feasible climate policies. Using data from the Wellcome Global Monitor 2020, the European Social... |
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No. 279 | 03 Oct 2022 |
Shaping the transition
Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies provide new opportunities but also raise fears about disruptive labour market and workplace transitions. This working paper examines how social dialogue can... |
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No. 278 | 23 Sept 2022 |
New gig work or changes in reporting?
Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new “gig” work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax returns, we show... |
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No. 277 | 23 Sept 2022 |
Information technologies for social services in Spain
This paper sets out the OECD’s assessment of the information technology (IT) systems for social services used by the public administration in Spain. It shows that large disparities exist between and within regions in the use of IT tools. The lack of... |
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No. 276 | 23 Sept 2022 |
Provision of social services in EU countries
This paper provides an overview of how social services are organised in European Union countries. With a special focus on Spain and countries with federal or semi-federal organisation, the paper starts by analysing social services from a legal... |
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No. 275 | 06 Sept 2022 |
The environmental sustainability competence toolbox
The paper is the second in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the... |
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No. 274 | 06 Sept 2022 |
Young people’s environmental sustainability competence
The paper is the first in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the... |
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No. 273 | 08 Jul 2022 |
Using Artificial Intelligence in the workplace
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are changing workplaces. AI systems have the potential to improve workplaces, but ensuring trustworthy use of AI in the workplace means addressing the ethical risks it can raise. This paper reviews possible risks... |
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No. 272 | 28 Jun 2022 |
The effect of declining unemployment benefits on transitions to employment
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of the 2012 reform on flows from UB to employment. The reform increased the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level and... |
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No. 271 | 12 May 2022 |
De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. This paper proposes a new empirical approach for quantifying the accessibility and value of income... |
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No. 270 | 15 Apr 2022 |
The recognition of prior learning
The recognition of prior learning enhances upskilling and reskilling pathways by shortening the duration of training and offering more personalised learning pathways to adults. While the majority of recognition systems focus on professional and... |
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No. 269 | 25 Feb 2022 |
Global warming, pollution and cognitive developments
Global warming and air pollution threaten human health, economic prosperity and human capital accumulation. The current review presents empirical findings on the effect of adverse environmental conditions on cognition, with a focus on pollution and... |
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No. 268 | 20 Jan 2022 |
The impact of the COVID-19 crisis across different socio-economic groups and the role of job retention schemes - The case of Switzerland
This paper analyses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis across socio-economic groups in Switzerland and the role played by its short-time work scheme during the first year of the crisis until the end of 2020. To this end, it compares changes in hours... |
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The supply, demand and characteristics of the AI workforce across OECD countries
Andrew Green and Lucas Lamby
23 Feb 2023
This report provides representative, cross-country estimates of the artificial intelligence (AI) workforce across OECD countries. The AI workforce is defined as the subset of workers with skills in statistics, computer science and machine learning...
Six questions about the demand for artificial intelligence skills in labour markets
Fabio Manca
23 Feb 2023
This study responds to six key questions about the impact that the demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills is having on labour markets. What are the occupations where AI skills are most relevant? How do different AI-relevant skills combine in...
Teleworking through the gender looking glass
Chloé Touzet
15 Feb 2023
This paper takes stock of existing data and research on the gendered dimension of teleworking, to foster efficient data collection and evidence-based monitoring of the phenomenon in the future. Analysing existing data on work from home, teleworking,...
Artificial intelligence and labour market matching
Stijn Broecke
30 Jan 2023
While still in its infancy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in labour market matching, whether by private recruiters, public and private employment services, or online jobs boards and platforms. Applications range from writing job...
Who pays for higher carbon prices?
Herwig Immervoll, Cathal O’Donoghue, Jules Linden and Denisa Sologon
30 Jan 2023
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines them in a way that is informative for mapping the gains...
What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers?
Julie Lassébie and Glenda Quintini
13 Dec 2022
This paper exploits novel data on the degree of automatability of approximately 100 skills and abilities collected through an original survey of experts in AI, and link them to occupations using information on skill and ability requirements extracted...
Swimming skills around the world
Francesca Borgonovi, Helke Seitz and Irina Vogel
15 Nov 2022
Being able to swim empowers individuals to make choices, have agency, and be free to choose core aspects of their life, such as working safely on or near water. It is also associated with lifelong health benefits and reduces the risk of drowning....
Understanding how economic conditions and natural disasters shape environmental attitudes
Kentaro Asai, Francesca Borgonovi and Sarah Wildi
08 Nov 2022
Understanding adults’ attitudes towards the environment is necessary to gauge the opportunities and challenges of creating effective and politically-feasible climate policies. Using data from the Wellcome Global Monitor 2020, the European Social...
Shaping the transition
Clara Krämer and Sandrine Cazes
03 Oct 2022
Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies provide new opportunities but also raise fears about disruptive labour market and workplace transitions. This working paper examines how social dialogue can...
New gig work or changes in reporting?
Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson and Dmitri Koustas
23 Sept 2022
Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new “gig” work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax returns, we show...
Information technologies for social services in Spain
Rodrigo Fernández, Sarah Kups and Ana Llena-Nozal
23 Sept 2022
This paper sets out the OECD’s assessment of the information technology (IT) systems for social services used by the public administration in Spain. It shows that large disparities exist between and within regions in the use of IT tools. The lack of...
Provision of social services in EU countries
Ana Llena-Nozal, Rodrigo Fernández and Sarah Kups
23 Sept 2022
This paper provides an overview of how social services are organised in European Union countries. With a special focus on Spain and countries with federal or semi-federal organisation, the paper starts by analysing social services from a legal...
The environmental sustainability competence toolbox
Francesca Borgonovi, Ottavia Brussino, Helke Seitz, Alice Bertoletti, Federico Biagi, Abdelfeteh Bitat, Zbigniew Karpinski and Marco Montanari
06 Sept 2022
The paper is the second in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the...
Young people’s environmental sustainability competence
Francesca Borgonovi, Ottavia Brussino, Helke Seitz, Alice Bertoletti, Federico Biagi, Abdelfeteh Bitat, Zbigniew Karpinski and Marco Montanari
06 Sept 2022
The paper is the first in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the...
Using Artificial Intelligence in the workplace
Angelica Salvi del Pero, Peter Wyckoff and Ann Vourc'h
08 Jul 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are changing workplaces. AI systems have the potential to improve workplaces, but ensuring trustworthy use of AI in the workplace means addressing the ethical risks it can raise. This paper reviews possible risks...
The effect of declining unemployment benefits on transitions to employment
Andrea Salvatori
28 Jun 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of the 2012 reform on flows from UB to employment. The reform increased the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level and...
De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers
Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee and Daniele Pacifico
12 May 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. This paper proposes a new empirical approach for quantifying the accessibility and value of income...
The recognition of prior learning
Michela Meghnagi and Michele Tuccio
15 Apr 2022
The recognition of prior learning enhances upskilling and reskilling pathways by shortening the duration of training and offering more personalised learning pathways to adults. While the majority of recognition systems focus on professional and...
Global warming, pollution and cognitive developments
Diana Horvath and Francesca Borgonovi
25 Feb 2022
Global warming and air pollution threaten human health, economic prosperity and human capital accumulation. The current review presents empirical findings on the effect of adverse environmental conditions on cognition, with a focus on pollution and...
The impact of the COVID-19 crisis across different socio-economic groups and the role of job retention schemes - The case of Switzerland
Alexander Hijzen and Andrea Salvatori
20 Jan 2022
This paper analyses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis across socio-economic groups in Switzerland and the role played by its short-time work scheme during the first year of the crisis until the end of 2020. To this end, it compares changes in hours...