The Technological Impact on Employment in Spain between 2023 and 2035
Articles
Overview
published in
- Forecasting Journal
publication date
- April 2024
start page
- 296
end page
- 325
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 2571-9394
abstract
- The objective of this work is to predict the impact of technology on employment demand by profession in Spain between 2023 and 2035. The evaluation of this effect involved the comparison of two scenarios: a trend scenario obtained by predicting the evolution of occupations in demand and a technological scenario anticipated in the case of technological progress. To accomplish this goal, a new approach was developed in the present study based on previous research. Thus, we estimated the proportion of jobs likely to be automated using a task-based approach. Each occupation was examined based on its components to determine the degree to which these tasks could be automated. The results suggest that technology may influence job demand but with low percentages (between 3% and 5% for both low- and high-qualified workers) in the long term. However, job losses are greater in absolute difference in low-skilled professions, where a great share of the labor force is engaged
Classification
subjects
- Economics
keywords
- technological impact; technology; artificial intelligence; prediction; employment; tasks; professions; spain