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This database has been compiled to provide a searchable repository on published research addressing “future skills” that will be a useful tool for researchers and individuals interested in the future of work and the future of skills.
The database integrates existing bibliographies focused on future skills and the future of work as well as the results of new ProQuest and Google Scholar searches. The process of building the database also involved consultations with experts and the identification of key research organizations publishing in this area, as well as searches of those organizations’ websites. For a more detailed explanation of how the database was assembled, please read the Future Skills Reference Database Technical Note.
The current database, assembled by future skills researchers at the Diversity Institute, is not exhaustive but represents a first step in building a more comprehensive database. It will be regularly updated and expanded as new material is published and identified. In that vein, we encourage those with suggestions for improvements to this database to connect with us directly at di.fsc@ryerson.ca.
From this database, we also selected 39 key publications and created an Annotated Bibliography. It is designed to serve as a useful tool for researchers, especially Canadian researchers, who may need some initial guidance in terms of the key references in this area.
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Structural gender equality in Europe and its evolution over the first decade of the twenty-first century
This paper presents the annual time series and the average annual growth rate of the European Gender Equality Index, which was proposed by Bericat (Soc Indic Res 108:1–28, 2012), for the EU and its 27 member countries for the period 2000–2011. The paper also reports the time series and average annual growth rate for each of the three subdimensions of gender equality—education, work, and power—and the underlying indicators for each subdimension for EU as a whole. The calculated index shows that in the period 2000–2011, overall gender equality, equality in education, work, and power in the EU has been improving at a rate of 1.7, 0.92, 0.65, and 3.48 % per year, respectively. By 2011, overall gender equality, and equality in education, work, and power has reached 58.3, 77.4, 60.9, and 42.7, respectively. In short, this paper offers the scientific community, as well as those that design and implement public policies, a robust, valid and precise synthetic description of the current situation and evolution, from 2000 to 2011, of structural gender equality in European countries.
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Back to the future: Not looking into the future but at futures
This speech is about the trickiness of the future. Thus, the author will share her thoughts about why she thinks it is important for researchers interested in work-life matters to engage in a discussion about the future. She would like to stress the importance of engaging in discussions about the future, since the purpose of her talk is not to encourage work-life researchers to collectively convert into oracles, prophets, or fortune-tellers. Her talk has the following structure: She will start by arguing why she believes the future is important. She will then continue with a note on the absence of futures studies in working life-related journals, and the absence of work-life matters in future studies. She will describe some of the ways in which research has formulated knowledge about the future. The talk will be finished by returning to why she thinks working life research needs to engage in the future.
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Drivers of disruption? Estimating the Uber effect
A frequent belief is that the rise of so-called “gig work” has led to the displacement of workers in a wide range of traditional jobs. This paper examines the impacts of the flagship of the gig economy—Uber—on workers employed in conventional taxi services. Our analysis exploits newly collected data on the staggered rollout of Uber across metropolitan areas in the United States and a difference-in-differences design to document that incumbent taxi drivers experienced a relative earnings decline of about 10 percent subsequent to Uber’s entry into a new market, while there are no significant effects on their labor supply. Additional evidence from a battery of placebo tests, event study estimates, and specifications using Google Trends data to capture differences in treatment intensity underlines these findings. A triple-differences design that compares changes among taxi drivers relative to bus, tractor, and truck drivers that were unaffected by the arrival of Uber, provides further supporting evidence that the diffusion of Uber has reduced the earnings potential of incumbent drivers in conventional taxi services in the United States.
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Did the computer revolution shift the fortunes of US cities? Technology shocks and the geography of new jobs
This paper shows how the Computer Revolution of the 1980s shifted the economic trajectories of U.S. cities. Examining the emergence of new occupational titles in official census classifications, we document a sharp reversal in the skill content of new jobs. While technological change was biased towards routine skills throughout the 1970s, new job titles mainly appeared in occupations and industries that required abstract skills after 1980. This reversal is also reflected in the geography of new jobs. Following the Computer Revolution, the creation of new jobs shifted towards cities with endowments of analytical and interactive skills. Our results suggest that the recent divergence of U.S. cities can in part be explained by the complementarities between new technologies and skill endowments.
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Industrial renewal in the 21st century: Evidence from US cities
Industrial renewal in the 21st century: evidence from US cities. Regional Studies. Where and why do new industries emerge? Using revisions of official industrial classifications, this paper documents the appearance of new industries in the US economy between 2000 and 2010 stemming directly from technological advances. Examining differences in new industry creation across cities, this paper shows that new industries mainly emerge in human capital abundant places and cities that specialize in industries that demand similar skills. Instrumental variables estimates that exploit the location of 19th-century land-grant colleges as an instrument for contemporary differences in human capital assigns a causal interpretation to these results.
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Satisfaction de la vie professionnelle, réseaux sociaux et employabilité chez les jeunes salariés de 18/30 ans
Employability is a concept mobilized by authors from different disciplines such as economics (Gazier 1989; Outin 1990), psychology (Berntson, 2008), social sciences (Leduc Browne, 1999), management science (Dietrich, 2010; Baruel Bencherqui, 2005). This research deals more specifically with the intention of developing their employability (Hategekimana and Roger, 2000, 2002) among young employees of 18 to 30 years. Thus quantitative analysis of a sample of 160 young employees were conducted to examine what are the factors involved in this plan to develop their employability. The results of our study show a difference in the intention of developing their employability between women and men and they highlight the importance, for young employees to the satisfaction in working life and the role of networks (social, intra- and inter-organizational) on the intention to develop their employability. [googletranslate_en]
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La Gestion Prévisionnelle des Emplois et des Compétences et son effet sur l'employabilité des salariés
The social cohesion planning law of 18 January 2005 requires companies triennial negotiating an agreement on the Management of jobs and skills (GPEC). This law thus boost the dynamics of GPEC enterprise challenged in the 1990s by combining the concept of GPEC than job cuts, restructuring and socially. This paper looks at recent developments in this area and shows in support of the analysis of 23 GPEC enterprise agreements signed between late 2006 and early 2010 that the practices of GPEC enhance the employability of employees. A special look is worn in addition to the role of VAE, the balance of skills and training. [googletranslate_en]
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Project-based learning for the 21st century: Skills for the future
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an innovative approach to learning that teaches a multitude of strategies critical for success in the twenty-first century. Students drive their own learning through inquiry, as well as work collaboratively to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge. From gleaning new, viable technology skills, to becoming proficient communicators and advanced problem solvers, students benefit from this approach to instruction.
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The future composition of the Canadian labor force: A microsimulation projection
This article charts the future transformations of the Canadian labor force population using a microsimulation projection model. The model takes into account differentials in demographic behavior and labor force participation of individuals according to their ethnocultural and educational characteristics. As a result of a rapid fall in fertility, the Canadian population is expected to age rapidly as baby boomers start to retire from the labor market in large numbers. In response to declining fertility, Canada raised its immigration intake at the end of the 1980s, and immigration is now the main driver of Canadian population growth. At the same time, immigrants to Canada are becoming more culturally diversified. Over the last half century, the main source regions have shifted from Europe to Asia. Results of the microsimulation show that Canada's labor force population will continue to increase, but at a slower rate than in the recent past. By 2031, almost one third of the country's total labor force could be foreign‐born, and almost all its future increase is expected to be among university graduates, while the less‐educated labor force is projected to decline.