This report analyses the effects of new technologies on the future of work and skills. It combines a synthesis of the most recent and robust scientific evidence available with the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) research.
In particular, the publication provides new insights on the interplay between automation and work organisation, the extent and nature of platform work, and the patterns of occupational changes across EU regions.
The findings indicate that low-wage jobs have increasingly concentrated in peripheral regions while higher-wage jobs are becoming more and more concentrated in capital regions, leading to increasing territorial disparities, both across and within the EU Member States.