Over the past decades, the labor market has undergone major changes driven by technological and economic factors such as automation, globalization, and robotization, and the pace of change is expected to accelerate with the influence of artificial intelligence and the green, demographic, and digital transitions. This creates increased demands for understanding competence needs, how different skills are valued in the labor market, and how this varies based on factors such as age, gender, and education.
This project will use data from PIAAC – the international assessment of adult skills – to shed light on various topics related to adults’ competencies and labor‑market outcomes. The project will use comparative analyses to study developments over time, comparing Norway’s situation with that of other countries. In addition, PIAAC2 will allow us to link information on adults’ skills with individual‑level data on the Norwegian population from Statistics Norway (SSB).
Key themes include the relative importance of skills acquired early versus later in life; the effects of changing skill requirements – particularly those driven by technological change – on labour market inclusion in Norway; and how the returns to different types of skills, including social and emotional skills, evolve over time and across segments of the labour market.
