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The Impact Of Digitization On Competitiveness And Labour Market

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  • Manuela Unguru

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The first three industrial revolutions have shown that technology has a strong impact on the labour market and business environment. According to expectations, the current phenomenon of rapid digitization, referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will improve competitiveness through enabling productivity gains and facilitating job creation/destruction, as well as the emergence of completely new occupations.Hence, policy makers should address challenges arising from mass digitalization, and improve collaborative involvement of all stakeholders (industry, consumers, experts, government) when designing competitiveness policies. Low digital skills in Romania represents a barrier to enhancing competitiveness. Nevertheless, the country could still take advantage of job creation in the short term,as a result of the relocation of labor-intensive activities from countries that are advanced in digitalization.

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  • Manuela Unguru, 2016. "The Impact Of Digitization On Competitiveness And Labour Market," Impact of Socio-economic and Technological Transformations at National, European and International Level (ISETT), Institute for World Economy, Romanian Academy, vol. 13.
    • Handle: RePEc:iem:imptrs:v:13:y:2016:id:2822000009632039
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    Keywords

    competitiveness; technological change; employment;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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