EIB Working Paper 2023/01 - Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training
The use of advanced digital technologies such as 3D printing, advanced robotics, drones, big data analytics and artificial intelligence is spreading. These technologies have uncertain implications for labour demand. Affected workers may need to re-train to adapt to changing tasks or new jobs. At the...
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2023
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| description | The use of advanced digital technologies such as 3D printing, advanced robotics, drones, big data analytics and artificial intelligence is spreading. These technologies have uncertain implications for labour demand. Affected workers may need to re-train to adapt to changing tasks or new jobs. At the same time, it is unclear whether or not advanced digital technologies encourage firms to invest in workforce re-training. Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, this paper shows that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee, after adopting advanced digital technologies. It estimates, with a control function approach, firm-level production functions augmented with two factors: training per employee and digital technology use. We show that these are in fact substitutes in production, implying that an increase in the former negatively affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing advanced digital technologies reduces employers’ investment in training per employee. These findings point to challenges in realising high levels of firm-sponsored training for employees in increasingly digital economies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-994452024-03-30T02:53:18Z EIB Working Paper 2023/01 - Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training European Investment Bank Business & Economics Banks & Banking thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industry::KFFK Banking The use of advanced digital technologies such as 3D printing, advanced robotics, drones, big data analytics and artificial intelligence is spreading. These technologies have uncertain implications for labour demand. Affected workers may need to re-train to adapt to changing tasks or new jobs. At the same time, it is unclear whether or not advanced digital technologies encourage firms to invest in workforce re-training. Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, this paper shows that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee, after adopting advanced digital technologies. It estimates, with a control function approach, firm-level production functions augmented with two factors: training per employee and digital technology use. We show that these are in fact substitutes in production, implying that an increase in the former negatively affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing advanced digital technologies reduces employers’ investment in training per employee. These findings point to challenges in realising high levels of firm-sponsored training for employees in increasingly digital economies. 2023-04-18T11:08:16Z 2023-04-18T11:08:16Z 2023-04-12T05:34:19Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62343 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99445 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/76672/20230008_economics_working_paper_2023_01_en.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y European Investment Bank European Investment Bank 10.2867/16937 10.2867/16937 feca012f-a3d8-4aac-95aa-b6cf4bdbed7c 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) European Investment Bank Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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