Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282179 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 488
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in high-automatability occupations. Randomized information about their occupations' automatability increases respondents' concerns about their professional future, and expectations about future changes in their work environment. The information also increases willingness to participate in further training, especially among respondents in highly automatable occupation (+five percentage points). This uptick substantially narrows the gap in willingness to train between those in high- and low-automatability occupations.
Subjects: 
automation
further training
labor-market expectations
survey experiment
information
JEL: 
J24
O33
I29
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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