Thriving in Times of Technological Change [thesis]

Femke Cnossen
Chapter 1 1 Introduction "There's never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use technology to create and capture value. However, there's never been a worse time to be a worker with only 'ordinary' skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities at an extraordinary rate" (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014, p.11). Setting the Scene Technology, tasks and
more » ... abour markets This dissertation starts out from the literature on job polarisation. This literature focuses on the changing distribution of wages and employment on labour markets, and how that relates to technological progress and globalisation. 1 Job polarisation is 1 In this dissertation, I specifically focus on technology, and mostly those of the so-called 'third revolution': communication and information technologies -or computers (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014) . However, besides technology, globalisation has also greatly impacted labour markets over the past decades. Increased import competition following international trade (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson, 2013) , and offshoring possibilities of jobs to other countries (Goos, Manning, and Salomons, 2014; Reijnders and de Vries, 2017; Terzidis and Ortega-Argilés, 2021) have reduced the demand for offshorable occupations
doi:10.33612/diss.204617165 fatcat:mal5yxbdzbhvppafjiza7cyeam