Workforce aging and decent work in the era of the digital economy - towards a holistic public policy approach

Q3 Social Sciences
Sanja Stojković-Zlatanović, P. Jovanović
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Abstract

The aging of populations and the labour force, combined with the process of digitalisation, have a significant impact on labour markets, employment, and labour rights worldwide. Industries and jobs that rely on age-appreciating skills, which improve with age, are positively affected by both aging and digitalisation, since automation compensates for the lower physical abilities of older workers, thereby increasing their productivity. On the other hand, automation threatens physical and routine jobs that require low skills. In this paper, the authors used an empirical approach and inductive method to analyse the simultaneous influence of aging and digitalisation on workforce skills and demand for employees. In the future, governments? efforts to stimulate employment and decent work should include providing high-quality education that prepares the workforce to gain and upgrade creative and social skills. These changes require policy and regulatory interventions to address the issues of skill shifts and the transition towards both digital and green economies, while simultaneously promoting and standing for decent work conditions. This presupposes that businesses introduce and adopt sustainable, dynamic, and inclusive workplace practices. The authors propose the age management mechanism as a human resource tool, as well as its legal counterpart, the age-responsible due diligence approach, for managing the necessary changes
数字经济时代的劳动力老龄化和体面工作——面向整体公共政策方针
人口和劳动力老龄化,加上数字化进程,对全球劳动力市场、就业和劳工权利产生了重大影响。依赖年龄感知技能(随着年龄增长而提高)的行业和工作受到老龄化和数字化的积极影响,因为自动化弥补了老年工人较低的身体能力,从而提高了他们的生产率。另一方面,自动化威胁到需要低技能的体力和常规工作。在本文中,作者使用实证方法和归纳方法来分析老龄化和数字化对劳动力技能和员工需求的同时影响。在未来,政府?刺激就业和体面工作的努力应包括提供高质量的教育,使劳动力做好获得和提高创造和社会技能的准备。这些变化需要政策和监管干预措施,以解决技能转移和向数字经济和绿色经济过渡的问题,同时促进和维护体面的工作条件。这就要求企业引入并采用可持续的、动态的、包容的工作场所实践。作者建议将年龄管理机制作为一种人力资源工具,以及其法律对应物,年龄负责的尽职调查方法,以管理必要的变化
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