Digital technologies, employment, and skills

Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality iswhatwe refer to as the canonicalmodel, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two distinct skill groups that perform twodifferent and imperfectly substitutable tasks or produce two imperfectly...

Youth employment, unemployment, skills and economic growth

Welfare recipients' job skills and employment prospects.

The welfare reform goal of moving mothers who rely on welfare into private-sector employment cannot be achieved only by changes in public policy. Employment rates reflect the job qualifications of individuals, obstacles to work outside the home, the attractiveness of available jobs, and the capacity of the labor market to absorb new workers at particular skill levels. This article examines how ...

Information Handling Skills, Cognition and New Technologies

Few would dispute the efficacy of multimedia technology and the world wide web in promoting declarative knowledge or the acquisition of facts. It is the argument of this paper however that, apart from assisting a learner in “knowing that”, these technologies are underestimated in their capacity to facilitate intellectual skills—procedural knowledge or “knowing how”. Via examples from children e...

Digital Technologies and Disease Prevention.

In the last 3 decades or so, digital technologies have penetrated into a vast array of human activities; smartphones, computers, Internet, social media, and the rest have not only reached into many domains of everyday life but also spread globally and very rapidly— at a speed that technologies from previous eras had not done. In this special themed issue of the American Journal of Preventive Me...