The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Topics at Future of Work and Skills: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
GCRI · In development · service level R0
The Future of Work and Skills topics are the eight subject dossiers of its field, among them labour market change, automation and jobs, and occupational safety. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and it does not certify, license or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
The topics serve ministries, social partners and educators. They move from labour market change and automation through safety and learning to platform work, transitions, workforce planning and social protection. A reader looks for where change is fastest and where institutions lag. Each topic links to the methods it relies on.
The topics cover labour market change, automation, safety, lifelong learning, platform work, education-to-work, workforce planning and social protection.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Labour underutilisation | A measure combining unemployment, underemployment and the potential labour force. |
| Displacement effect | The reduction in labour demand when technology takes over tasks workers performed. |
| Occupational disease | A disease contracted as a result of exposure to risk factors arising from work. |
| Adult learning | Education and training undertaken by adults after they have left initial education. |
| Gig economy | Labour markets characterised by short-term tasks arranged through platforms or intermediaries. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Sector employment and occupational risk.
TopicAI/robotics impact and job redesign.
TopicHuman factors and new work hazards.
TopicMid-career transitions and skill maintenance.
TopicRemote work, platform labour and new organizations.
TopicAccess and professional inclusion.
TopicPublic and private sector capacity.
TopicIncome, inequality and transition safeguards.
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