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Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-market Expectations, and Willingness to Train
We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in high-automatability occupations. Randomized information about their occupations' automatability increases respondents' concerns about their professional future, and expectations about future changes in their work environment. The information also increases willingness to participate in further training, especially among respondents in highly automatable occupation (+five percentage points). This uptick substantially narrows the gap in willingness to train between those in high- and low-automatability occupations.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 488
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Education: Other
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- Subject
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automation
further training
labor-market expectations
survey experiment
information
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Lergetporer, Philipp
Wedel, Katharina
Werner, Katharina
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
- (where)
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München und Berlin
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Wedel, Katharina
- Werner, Katharina
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Time of origin
- 2023
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