Digitalisation, platformisation and the transformations of local labour markets

IF 2.4 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI:10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100103

Roberta Capello, Simona Ciappei, Camilla Lenzi

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Rapid technological progress, primarily in the fields of artificial intelligence and advanced automation, have relaunched the debate regarding their impact on employment, highlighting vast heterogeneity across occupational groups, with the least skilled and least educated workers proving to be the most vulnerable to substitution effects. This paper re-examines this statement by conceptually and empirically distinguishing digitalisation from platformisation, depending on their use of digital tools for the organisation of market transactions, and shows their positive, though highly selective, effects for specific occupational groups. Based on an empirical analysis of Italian NUTS3 regions in the period 2018–2023, the paper highlights the role of platforms for the creation of gig jobs, as much as the importance of advanced digitalisation for the creation of creative ones, highlighting an undesirable downgrading of jobs and an enduring polarisation trend in labour markets, which calls for mitigating policies accompanying the diffusion of digitalisation and platformisation in the upcoming years.

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数字化、平台化和当地劳动力市场的转型

快速的技术进步（主要是在人工智能和先进自动化领域）重新引发了关于它们对就业影响的辩论，凸显了职业群体之间的巨大异质性，事实证明，技能最低、受教育程度最低的工人最容易受到替代效应的影响。本文通过在概念上和经验上区分数字化和平台化来重新检验这一说法，这取决于他们对组织市场交易的数字工具的使用，并显示了他们对特定职业群体的积极影响，尽管是高度选择性的。基于对2018-2023年意大利NUTS3地区的实证分析，该论文强调了平台在创造零工工作方面的作用，以及先进数字化对创造创造性工作的重要性，强调了工作的不良降级和劳动力市场持续的两极分化趋势，这要求在未来几年出台伴随数字化和平台化扩散的缓和政策。

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期刊介绍： Regional Science is the official journal of the Regional Science Association International. It encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of topics in the field of regional science. These topics include, but are not limited to, behavioral modeling of location, transportation, and migration decisions, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial statistics. The journal publishes papers that make a new contribution to the theory, methods and models related to urban and regional (or spatial) matters.