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Digital Economy: Unemployment Risks and New Opportunities

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Digital Transformation and Global Society (DTGS 2019)

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In this paper we reflect on the potential employment impacts of national digital strategies. Traditional industries will be affected, and many employees will lose jobs. Ensuring their adaptation to digital economy is a responsibility co-shared between national governments, universities and employees themselves. We compare government investments into higher education and lifelong learning programs between OECD countries and state that there is a need for systematic continuous educational programs on digital skills where they are underinvested.

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    Evgeny Itsakov

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    Nikolai Kazantsev, Soizhina Yangutova, Dmitry Torshin & Maryia Alchykava

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Itsakov, E., Kazantsev, N., Yangutova, S., Torshin, D., Alchykava, M. (2019). Digital Economy: Unemployment Risks and New Opportunities. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O., Musabirov, I. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5_24

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