Gender and skill dimensions of technological transitions at workplaces: the case of The Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia

• Authors: Mensah Ebenezer Kwabla , Nchor Dennis

Title variants

PL

Zmiany technologiczne w miejscu pracy w kontekście płci i umiejętności. Przypadek Czech, Polski i Słowacji

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study seeks to investigate the impact of technology on employment by gender and skills of the labour markets in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, and employs the VAR model to analyse the impact of technology on employment by gender. It also uses a panel cointegrated autoregressive distributed lag model for the impact of technology on employment by skill groups. The study finds that although technology impacts on employment of gender in the three countries, it is however gender neutral. This study also finds that in the long-term, technology impacts negatively on middle skill employment and positively on low skill and high skill employment in a similar pattern before and after the global financial crises. The impact of technology varies across countries in the short term, attributed to cross-country differences in labour market policies and institutions.

PL

W artykule podjęto próbę zbadania wpływu technologii na zatrudnienie według płci i umiejętności na rynkach pracy w Czechach, Polsce i na Słowacji. Do analizy wpływu technologii na zatrudnienie według płci wykorzystano model VAR. Zastosowano ponadto panelowy model autoregresji z opóźnieniami rozłożonymi, by oszacować wpływ technologii na zatrudnienie według kategorii umiejętności. Z badania wynika, że chociaż technologia wpływa na zatrudnienie według płci w każdym z trzech analizowanych krajów, jest płciowo neutralna. W badaniu tym stwierdzono również, że w dłuższej perspektywie technologia wpływa negatywnie na zatrudnienie średnio wykwalifikowanych osób, pozytywnie natomiast na zatrudnienie osób o niskich i wysokich kwalifikacjach, w podobnym zakresie przed globalnym kryzysem finansowym i po nim. W krótkim okresie wpływ technologii jest zróżnicowany w poszczególnych krajach, co przypisuje się odmiennościom polityk oraz instytucji rynku pracy.

Keywords

EN

employment; technology; gender; skill

PL

zatrudnienie; technologia; płeć; umiejętności

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Ekonomia XXI Wieku
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 23
• Pages: 87-108

Contributors

author

Mensah Ebenezer Kwabla

• Mendel University, Czech Republic

author

Nchor Dennis

• Mendel University, Czech Republic

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