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Work and skills
Work and skills risk covers how automation, AI, climate and demographic change reshape tasks and occupations, and whether training and social protection let workers move rather than fall through.
01Three mandates
The field, seen three ways.
GRF
Governance and dialogue
No platform yet in this field.
GRA
Financial understanding
No platform yet in this field.
02The systemic question
Task exposure is not job loss.
Exposure studies map which tasks a technology can perform; they do not predict which jobs disappear, because adoption depends on cost, regulation, organisation and complementary investment. The risk question is the speed and concentration of change by region and occupation relative to the capacity of training systems and labour markets to absorb it.
- Occupation and skills taxonomies to compare exposure across countries.
- Heat stress as a growing constraint on outdoor and industrial labour.
- Just-transition arrangements in carbon-intensive regions.
03Frameworks
Classifications and standards.
| Framework or body | What it governs or supplies |
|---|---|
| ISCO-08 and ESCO | Occupation and skills classifications |
| ILOSTAT | Labour force statistics |
| ILO guidelines for a just transition | Policy framework for workers in transitioning sectors |
04Couplings
Labour and the rest.
- AI: task automation and augmentation.
- Industry: robotics and plant safety.
- Society: social protection.
The science sits on Future of Work and Skills; methods start from economics and econometrics.
05Grounding
The methods behind the field.
- Robotics and automation
- Materials science and chemistry
- Process and industrial safety engineering
- Systems engineering
- Optimisation and operations research
- Sensors, IoT and observation networks
- Energy generation, storage and grid technology
- Water and environmental engineering
- Economics and development economics
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Social and behavioural science
- Econometrics
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07Questions
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