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Work changes when technologies, contracts, skills and institutions change, and research on that change is often loud and weakly identified. This lab studies how automation, platform work, remote work, skills sistemi and workplace institutions reshape jobs and organisations, with designs that can tell a real effect from a trend. This page sets out the mechanisms, the measures, the data, the methods and the people who decide on the evidence.

02La domanda

Future of work lab: how the risk develops.

Workforce and institutional change research. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.

Meccanismo

Tasks change before jobs

Technologies automate or augment specific tasks, not whole occupations. Jobs are rebundled, skill demands shift within roles, and the effect on employment depends on how firms reorganise work around the tool.

Meccanismo

Exposure is not impact

Indices of which occupations are exposed to a technology describe potential, not outcome. Adoption, cost, regulation and bargaining decide what happens, so exposure indices need causal evidence before they inform policy.

Meccanismo

Institutions mediate change

Collective agreements, training sistemi, protezione sociale and labour law shape whether change raises productivity and wages or shifts risk onto workers. The same technology can produce different outcomes under different institutions.

Meccanismo

Workplace trials carry power

Experiments inside firms involve employees who may not feel free to refuse. Consent, worker representation, data protection and a real right to opt out decide whether a workplace study is ethical and its results credible.

03Simulatore

Stock, flussi, ritardi e una soglia critica.

Due stock, la pressione e la capacità di adattamento, legati da un ciclo di crescita che si rafforza, una risposta di bilanciamento ritardata e danni quando la pressione supera la capacità; oltre la soglia il sistema può ribaltarsi. Modello didattico con valori illustrativi dichiarati, non una previsione.

Comandi

Crescita della pressione
6,0% all'anno
Efficacia della capacità nel ridurre la pressione
4,0% all'anno
Risposta degli investimenti alla pressione percepita
20%
Ritardo di percezione
4.0 anni
Soglia critica della pressione
60 indici
Amplificazione oltre la soglia
2,0 volte
Anni simulati
50 anni

Letture

Pressione massima
113 indici
Capacità alla fine
Indice 186
Anni sopra la soglia
15,8 anni
Numeri, metodi e fonti
AnnoPressioneCapacitàPercepito
020.050.020.0
423.344.921.2
827.242.224.0
1231.742.327.7
1636.845.532.2
2042.351.537.2
2447.960.342.6
2853.271.348.0
3257.884.353.1
3666.498.458.4
4082.7115.969.7
4497.8139.783.8
48109.1169.497.3

Metodi

  1. Dinamica dei sistemi Forrester (1961), Industrial Dynamics, MIT Press; Sterman (2000), Business Dynamics
  2. Transizioni critiche e punti di non ritorno Scheffer and others (2009), Early-warning signals for critical transitions, Nature 461
  3. Diagramma a ciclo causale Sterman (2000), Business Dynamics, McGraw-Hill
  4. Ventaglio di incertezza (Monte Carlo sui parametri) Spiegelhalter, Pearson e Short (2011), Visualising uncertainty about the future, Science 333
  5. Sensibilità un fattore alla volta (tornado) Saltelli and others (2008), Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer, Wiley

Dati

No observed data enters this model: it runs on the teaching values set by the controls, to be replaced with a programme’s own evidence.

Stock, flussi, ritardi e una soglia di non ritorno. Modello didattico illustrativo: funziona con i valori impostati dai controlli, non con dati misurati. Metodi: dinamica dei sistemi (Forrester (1961), Industrial Dynamics, MIT Press; Sterman (2000), Business Dynamics); transizioni critiche e punti di non ritorno (Scheffer e altri (2009), Early-warning signals for critical transitions, Nature 461); diagramma dei cicli causali (Sterman (2000), Business Dynamics, McGraw-Hill).

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04In the five domains

The work lab studies change in each domain’s workforce.

05Metodi ed evidenze

How future of work lab is modelled, measured and tested.

Il modello, le sue ipotesi, i suoi dati e la sua incertezza, nella forma in cui uno scienziato o un ingegnere li verificherebbe. Le strutture seguono metodi pubblicati. I valori rappresentati sono illustrativi, non risultati.

Modello, equazioni e ipotesi

The model structure used for future of work lab, the assumptions it makes and how each is tested.

Rischio dell'elemento iRi = f(Hi, Ei, Vi, Ci)pericolo, esposizione, vulnerabilità e capacità di risposta
Perdita annua attesaEAL = ∑k pk · Lksu eventi k con probabilità annua pk
Sistemi accoppiatixt+1 = A xt + B ut + εtA carries the couplings, u the shock, ε the error
IpotesiPerché è realizzatoCome viene testato
Pericolo ed esposizione sono indipendenti all'interno di un eventoMantiene trattabile l'integrale delle perditeConfrontare con un adattamento di copula su registrazioni congiunte
Gli accoppiamenti sono lineari vicino al punto di funzionamentoConsente agli shock di propagarsi attraverso APerturbare oltre l'intervallo lineare e confrontare
Le curve di vulnerabilità si trasferiscono da un luogo all'altroLe curve locali sono raramente disponibiliValidare rispetto alle perdite osservate, dove esistono
Input
set di dati versionati con provenienza
Risultati
distribuzioni, mai valori singoli
Codice
pubblicato con la scheda del modello e i test
Riproduzione
stessi dati, codice, ambiente e seed
Formulazioni standard del rischio e dello spazio degli stati; le ipotesi elencate sono tipiche del metodo, dichiarate per la revisione, non risultati.
Principi guida FAIR · GO FAIR e FORCE11W3C PROV · World Wide Web ConsortiumGuidance on consistent treatment of uncertainties · IPCCCEOS Analysis Ready Data · Comitato sui satelliti per l'osservazione della Terra
06Indicatori

Cosa viene misurato e con quale accuratezza.

Ogni indicatore riporta la sua unità, la sua cadenza, il tipo di fonte su cui si basa e l'etichetta di evidenza che un valore riporterebbe. Non sono mostrati valori: un programma li fornisce sotto la propria autorità.

IndicatoreUnitàCadenzaTipo di fonteEtichetta
Task exposure indexdimensionless index by occupationannualeTask databases mapped to technology capabilityMODELLATO
Firm adoption of the studied technologypercent of firmsannualeEnterprise surveysSTIMATO
Adult skills proficiencyscore on the survey scaleper survey cycleOECD Survey of Adult SkillsOSSERVATO
Job quality indexcomposite indexper survey cycleWorking conditions surveysSTIMATO
Participation in job-related trainingpercent of adultsannualeLabour force and adult education surveysStatistiche pubblicate
Pre-analysis plans for workplace trialspercent of trials registered before launchannualeAEA RCT RegistryStatistiche pubblicate
Worker representatives consultedpercent of workplace studiesper studioStudy ethics recordsDICHIARATO
07Fonti

Da dove provengono le evidenze.

Set di dati pubblici e registri istituzionali specifici, ciascuno con la sua classe di licenza. Le fonti soggette ad accordo sono utilizzate solo alle relative condizioni e mai ripubblicate.

FonteCosa fornisceClasse di licenza
ILOSTAT (International Labour Organization)Employment, hours, wages and informality by countryFree and open, CC BY
OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)Literacy, numeracy and problem solving of adults, with job tasksOECD terms; microdata by release
O*NET (US Department of Labor)Task, skill and work activity descriptors by occupationOpen, CC BY
ESCO (European Commission)Multilingual classification of skills, competences and occupationsGratuito e aperto, attribuzione
European Working Conditions Survey (Eurofound)Job quality, autonomy, work intensity and representationFree for research, end-user licence
AEA RCT Registry (American Economic Association)Registered field experiments and pre-analysis plans in economicsFree access, terms of use
National labour force surveysEmployment, occupation and training microdataTerms per statistical office
08Decisioni

Chi decide, e a cosa servono le evidenze.

Laboratori prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.

Chi decideLa domandaEvidenze fornite da questa pagina
Labour ministries and public employment servicesWhich training and transition programmes to fund or scaleImpact evaluations with credible comparison groups, cost data, effects by group
Employers and worker representativesWhether and how to introduce a technology, with what consultation and safeguardsPilot evaluation, task and job-quality effects, data protection assessment
Research ethics committeesWhether a workplace experiment protects voluntariness and personal dataConsent design, opt-out route, representation agreement, data minimisation
Finanziatori della ricercaWhich questions on work and technology merit sustained fundingEvidence gaps mapped by strength of design, not by volume of commentary

Output prodotti da questo argomento

  • Pre-analysis plans for workplace and labour market trials
  • Occupational task maps linked to technology capability, with the method stated
  • Evaluations of training and transition programmes with the identification strategy stated
  • Ethics and consultation records for studies inside workplaces
09Questioni centrali

What experts ask about changing work.

  • Which tasks within an occupation are changing, rather than which jobs disappear?
  • Who bears the costs of transition, by region, age, sex, sector and skill level?
  • Which training, matching and income-support measures actually change outcomes?
  • How do institutions such as schools, unions, employers and public employment services adapt?
  • How do heat, disasters and supply disruptions affect work and safety?
10Meccanismi e fattori

The forces reshaping work.

Economists analyse technological change at the level of tasks. A technology may substitute for some tasks, complement others and create new ones; the net effect on an occupation depends on the mix and on how employers reorganise work. Automation and AI tend to affect routine cognitive and manual tasks first, but recent tools also reach into tasks once thought to require judgement.

Other forces act alongside technology. Ageing populations change labour supply and care needs. cambiamenti climatici raises heat exposure for outdoor and industrial workers and shifts employment between sectors during energy transitions. Trade and supply-chain disruptions can concentrate job losses in particular places, where the effects persist for years.

Institutions shape outcomes. The same technology can produce very different results depending on training sistemi, labour law, protezione sociale and bargaining arrangements.

11Metodi e dati

Evidence and its limits.

  1. 01

    Task and occupation data

    Classifications of work activities linked to employment data. They lag behind real change and vary between countries.

  2. 02

    Labour force and administrative records

    Surveys and registers tracking employment, earnings and transitions. Access is often restricted and linking sources raises privacy questions.

  3. 03

    Valutazione d'impatto

    Randomised and quasi-experimental studies of training and matching programmes using inferenza causale. Results may not transfer across labour markets.

  4. 04

    Workplace experiments

    Controlled trials of new tools or practices inside organisations, under consent and ethics review.

Forecasts of jobs lost or created are highly sensitive to assumptions and are not presented as predictions. The lab reports scenarios with their assumptions.

13Where this page’s references

Where this page’s references lead.

Gli organismi e i documenti alla luce dei quali si legge questa pagina. Stato ed edizioni cambiano; ogni link porta all'organismo emittente.

14Domande

Domande e risposte.

Does exposure to automation mean jobs will be lost?
No. Exposure measures which tasks a technology could perform. Whether employment falls, rises or changes shape depends on adoption, costs, demand and institutions, and needs causal evidence.
Why register a pre-analysis plan for a field experiment?
Labour data offer many outcomes and subgroups. A registered plan fixes which ones test the hypothesis, so a reported effect is not simply the best of many tries.
Can employees refuse to take part in a workplace study?
They should be able to, without consequence. Ethics committees look for genuine voluntariness, independent consent routes and, where relevant, agreement with worker representatives.
Does the lab predict how many jobs will be lost to AI?
No. It studies how tasks change and what helps people adapt. Where scenarios are used, they are presented with their assumptions, not as forecasts.
Can an employer run a workplace trial with the lab?
A trial can be proposed. It proceeds only under a published protocol, with consent from workers and independent ethics review.
How does this lab differ from the Future of Work and Skills platform?
The platform covers the field as a whole; the lab runs experiments and evaluations that feed it.
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