Publication by Valentin Lindlacher in Research Policy

Valentin Lindlacher (Junior Professorship of Economics, esp. International Economic Policy) is pleased to announce a publication in the prestigious journal Research Policy which is joint work with Oliver Falck, Yuchen Guo, Christina Langer, and Simon Wiederhold. 

A central question in debates on automation is whether workers can realistically adapt to technological change. The paper “Training, Automation, and Wages: International Worker-Level Evidence” provides large-scale international evidence on the role of firm-provided training. Using worker-level data from 37 industrialized countries, we show that training matters in several important ways:

• It reduces workers’ automation risk
• It raises wages and strengthens digital skills
• It helps workers shift toward less automatable tasks
• It works broadly, with similar effects across gender, age, and education groups

Link to the publication