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The Future of Jobs

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  • The Future of Jobs Report
    • Part 1: Preparing for the Workforce of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
      • Chapter 1: The Future of Jobs and Skills
        • Drivers of Change
        • Employment Trends
        • Skills Stability
        • Future Workforce Strategy
      • Chapter 2: The Industry Gender Gap
        • The Business Case for Change
        • Gaps in the Female Talent Pipeline
        • Barriers to Change
        • Women and Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
        • Approaches to Leveraging Female Talent
      • References and Further Reading
      • Appendix A: Report Methodology
      • Appendix B: Industry and Regional Classifications
    • Part 2: Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
      • User’s Guide: How to Read the Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Global Challenge Partners
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  • Shareable Infographics
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  • [ — Divider — ]
  • The Future of Jobs Report
    • Part 1: Preparing for the Workforce of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
      • Chapter 1: The Future of Jobs and Skills
        • Drivers of Change
        • Employment Trends
        • Skills Stability
        • Future Workforce Strategy
      • Chapter 2: The Industry Gender Gap
        • The Business Case for Change
        • Gaps in the Female Talent Pipeline
        • Barriers to Change
        • Women and Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
        • Approaches to Leveraging Female Talent
      • References and Further Reading
      • Appendix A: Report Methodology
      • Appendix B: Industry and Regional Classifications
    • Part 2: Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
      • User’s Guide: How to Read the Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Global Challenge Partners

References and Further Reading

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Drivers of Change, Trends and Disruptions

  • Annunziata, M. and S. Biller, The Future of Work, GE Discussion Paper, General Electric, 2014.
  • Bessen, J., “Toil and Technology: Innovative technology is displacing workers to new jobs rather than replacing them entirely”, IMF Finance and Development Magazine, March 2015.
  • Boston Consulting Group, Man and Machine in Industry 4.0: How Will Technology Transform the Industrial Workforce Through 2025?, 2015.
  • Brynjolfsson, E. and A. McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, 2014.
  • Burrow, S., “How will climate change affect jobs?”, Forum Agenda Blog, December 2015.
  • Cappelli, P. and J. Keller, “Classifying Work in the New Economy”, Academy of Management, vol. 38, no. 4, 2013, pp. 575–596.
  • Catalyst, Buying Power: Global Women, 2015.
  • Christensen, C., M. Raynor and R. McDonald, “What is Disruptive Innovation?”, Harvard Business Review, December 2015, pp. 44-53.
  • Citi, “Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment”, Citi GPS: Global Perspectives & Solutions, February 2015.
  • Frey, C. and M. Osborne, The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation? Oxford Martin School Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, September 2013.
  • GE Reports and The Economist, “Infographic: No seriously, wearables will be a thing – How this fast-growing sector will change the way we work”, GE Look Ahead, 2014.
  • IndustriALL Global Union, Industry 4.0 the industrial revolution happening now, 4 December 2015, www.industriall-union.org/industry-40-the-industrial-revolution-happening-now.
  • Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, “The Effects of Digitalization on Employment – First Impressions from the IW Human Resources Panel”, IW-Trends 3/2015 (in German).
  • International Labour Organisation (ILO), World Economic and Social Outlook 2015, 2015.
  • Karabarbounis, L. and B. Neiman, The Global Decline of the Labour Share, NBER Working Paper 19136, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013.
  • Keynes, J.M. Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, 1930.
  • ManpowerGroup, Entering the Human Age, 2013.
  • McKinsey Global Institute, Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy, 2013.
  • McKinsey Quarterly, Manager and machine: The new leadership equation, 2014.
  • Mishel, L, H. Shierholz and J. Schmitt, Don’t Blame the Robots: Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage Inequality, Economic Policy Institute and Center for Economic Policy Research Working Paper, 2013.
  • Mokyr, J, C. Vickers and N. Ziebarth, “The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer 2015, pp. 31–50.
  • O’Connor, S., “The human cloud: A new world of work”, Financial Times, 8 October 2015.
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Jobs Quality, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs – Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, 16-17 October 2014.
  • Pew Research Centre, Key Insights: Expert Views on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs, 2014.
  • PwC, The Future of Work: A Journey to 2022 & Global Megatrends, 2014, http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/megatrends/index.jhtml.
  • Salazar-Xirinachs, J.M. Trends and disruptions and their implications for the Future of Jobs, Discussion Paper, 2014.
  • Silverstein, M. and K. Sayre, “The Female Economy”, Harvard Business Review, September 2009.
  • Stewart, I., D. De and A. Cole, Technology and people: The great job-creating machine: Deloitte Discussion Paper, December 2014.
  • Talwar, R. and T. Hancock, The shape of jobs to come: Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010-2030), Fast Future Research, 2010.
  • TATA Consultancy Services, Workplace of the Future: A View from European Youth, 2014.
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit, Automated, creative & dispersed: The Future of Work in the 21st Century, 2015.
  • The Economist, “Special Report: The Third Great Wave”, 2014.
  • The Financial Times, “World will have 13 ‘super-aged’ nations by 2020”, 6 August 2014, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f356f8a0-1d8c-11e4-8f0c-00144feabdc0.html.
  • World Economic Forum, The Human Capital Report 2015, 2015.
  • World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, Deep Shift: Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council White Paper, 2015.

Industry and Regional Focus

  • Annunziata, M. and R. Rostom, Mapping the Future of Work in MENAT, General Electric, 2014.
  • Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Australia’s Future Workforce?, 2015.
  • EY, Fuelling the next generation: A study of the UK upstream oil and gas workforce, 2014.
  • European Commission, “EU employment in a global context: where will new jobs come from and what will they look like?”, Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2013, 2014, http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&langId=en&pubId=7684&visible=1.
  • Freelancer’s Union and Upwork, Freelancing in America: A National Survey of the New Workforce, 2015.
  • Government of Ireland, Expert Group on Future Skills Needs, Reports on Future Skills Requirements, various sectors, 2008-2013.
  • Institute for the Future, The Future of California’s Workforce, 2012.
  • Mandel, M. “Where are the Big Data Jobs?”, Progressive Policy Institute, 2014.
  • ———, Where the Jobs Are: The App Economy, TechNet, 2012.
  • McKinsey Global Institute, Help wanted: The Future of Work in Advanced Economies: Discussion Paper, 2012.
  • ———, India’s technology opportunity: Transforming work, empowering people, 2014.
  • National Skill Development Corporation of India, Human Resource and Skill Requirements for 2022 Sector Reports, various sectors, 2014, http://www.nsdcindia.org/nsdcreports.
  • UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Careers of the Future, Evidence Report 89, 2014.
  • ———, The Future of Work: Jobs and skills in 2030, Evidence Report 84, 2014. .
  • US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2012-2022, 2013.
  • World Economic Forum, Industry Transformation Briefings, various sectors [see Appendix B], 2014.

Skill Sets of the Future

  • Anderson, C. and J. Gantz, Skills Requirements for Tomorrow’s Best Jobs: Helping Educators Provide Students with Skills and Tools They Need, IDC Opinion, October 2013.
  • Autor, D., The “Task Approach” to Labor Markets: An Overview, IZA Discussion Paper No. 7178, 2013.
  • ———, The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: Implications for Employment and Earnings, Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project, 2010.
  • Autor, D, F. Levy and R. Murnane, “The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 118, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1,279-1,333.
  • Burning Glass Technologies, Crunched by the Numbers: The Digital Skills Gap in the Workforce, 2015.
  • Cappelli, P. Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches: Evidence and Arguments for the US, NBER Working Paper 20382, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014.
  • Deming, D., The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market, NBER Working Paper 21473, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015.
  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), Piloting a European Employer Survey on Skill Needs: Illustrative Findings, CEDEFOP Research Paper No. 36, 2013.
  • ———, Quantifying Skills Needs in Europe – Occupational Skills Profiles: Methodology and Application, CEDEFOP Research Paper No. 30, 2013.
  • ———, Skills supply and demand in Europe: Medium-term forecast up to 2020, 2010.
  • Infosys, Amplifying human potential: Education and skills for the fourth industrial revolution, 2016.
  • Institute for the Future and the University of Phoenix, Future Work Skills 2020, 2011.
  • International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Union, Research Brief: Anticipating skills needs for the low carbon economy? Difficult, but not impossible, 2012.
  • ILO and the CEDEFOP, Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View – Synthesis Report Based on 21 Country Studies, 2011.
  • Katz, L. and R. Margo, Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labour: The United States in Historical Perspective, NBER Working Paper 18752, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013.
  • NESTA, Creativity vs Robots: The Creative Economy and the Future of Employment, 2015.
  • ———, Skills of the Datavores: Talent and the Data Revolution, 2015.
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), “Skills and Jobs in the Internet Economy”, OECD Digital Economy Papers No. 242, 2014.
  • ———, OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, 2013.
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit, Changing roles: How technology is transforming business functions, 2015.

Implications for Gender Parity

  • Black, S. and A. Spitz-Oener, “Explaining Women’s Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women’s Work”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 92, no. 1, 2010, pp. 187-194.
  • Centre for Talent Innovation, Women Want Five Things, 2014.
  • Deming, D., The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market, NBER Working Paper 21473, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015.
  • Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Women on Boards, 2011.
  • Ely, R., Ibarra, H. and D. Kolb, “Taking Gender Into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs”, INSEAD Working Paper, 2011.
  • Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, “Fachkräfteengpässe in Unternehmen: Geschlechterunterschiede in Engpassberufen”, Studie 2/2015 (in German).
  • International Labour Organization (ILO), “The Gender Divide in Skills Development: Progress, Challenges and Policy Options for Empowering Women”, Skills for Employment Policy Brief, 2014.
  • Kaplan, J., “The Age of the Robot Worker Will Be Worse for Men: The jobs that are least vulnerable to automation tend to be held by women”, The Atlantic Magazine, 2015.
  • Lewis, C., “Women and Jobs in the Robot Economy”, RobotEnomics Blog, 2014, http://robotenomics.com/2014/01/03/women-and-jobs-in-the-robot-economy.
  • McKinsey & Company, Women in the Workplace, 2015.
  • OECD, “Cooking and Caring, Building and Repairing: Unpaid Work around the World”, in Society at a Glance 2011: OECD Social Indicators, 2011.
  • Voss, G., “The Second Shift in the Second Machine Age: Automation, Gender and the Future of Work” in Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy, NESTA, 2014.

Change Management and Future Workforce Planning

  • Accenture, Burning Glass Technologies and Harvard Business School, Bridge the Gap: Re-Building America’s Middle Skills, 2015.
  • Arias, O., “Are skills really a panacea for unemployment?”, Forum Agenda Blog, 2014.
  • Boston Consulting Group and the International Confederation of Private Employment Services (CIETT), Adapting to Change: How private employment services facilitate adaptation to change, better labour markets and decent work, 2014.
  • Cognizant, The Robot and I: How New Digital Technologies Are Making Smart People and Businesses Smarter by Automating Rote Work, Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, 2015.
  • Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends 2015: Leading in the new world of work, 2015.
  • ———, Global Human Capital Trends 2014: Engaging the 21st Century Workforce, 2014.
  • Department for Work and Pensions, “A New Vision for Older Workers: Retain, Retrain, Recruit”, report to Government by the Business Champion for Older Workers, United Kingdom, 2015.
  • Everis, Preparing for the digitisation of the workforce, The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2015.
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the National Academy of Science and Engineering, Securing the future of German manufacturing industry: Recommendations for implementing the strategic initiative INDUSTRIE 4.0, final report of the Industrie 4.0 Working Group, 2013.
  • Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Arbeit Weiter Denken: Grünbuch Arbeiten 4.0, 2015 (in German).
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