Job tasks in the EU: implications for skills and labour shortages
Publications Office of the European Union - Luxembourg
2025
48 p.
labour market policy ; quality of working life ; employment ; skill ; training
Employment
https://doi.org/10.2806/5581302
English
"This paper provides new evidence on the types of tasks that are carried out at work in the European Union (EU). It highlights the changes in the recent structural composition of employment in the EU-27, and it analyses the data on tasks in the context of labour and skills shortages and skill utilisation. Modern employment research relies on the theory and data of job tasks – units of work within the production process that are bundled into jobs and may require different skills. The task approach is used in the related literature to study structural employment trends and the impact of new technologies on work and to make predictions on the share of the labour force exposed to automation and offshoring or that is capable of telework."
Digital
ISBN (PDF) : 978-92-897-2498-2
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