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标题：Household living conditions. Influence of new technologies on the labour market – user status and technological unemployment
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作者：Dominik Batorski
期刊名称：Contemporary Economics
印刷版ISSN：2084-0845
出版年度：2015
卷号：9
期号：4
页码：178-191
DOI：10.5709/ce.1897-9254.189
出版社：University of Finance and Management, Warsaw
摘要：Internet and new technologies are significant for the labour market. However, the influence of technological changes is still not well-known. This article based on the Social Diagnosis data from the period 2005-2015 analyses two main dimensions of the influence of new technologies on the users’ professional position. The article discusses chances of finding employment by the unemployed, maintaining work by people working as well as improving professional situation by professionally active people understood as finding a better-paid work, taking up additional work or getting promotion. The influence of Internet usage on changes in income is also analysed. The second part focuses on more long-term effects of technologies on changes in the methods of performing work and, as a consequence, on the change in the demand for work in many professions. Technologies can contribute to improvement of employees’ efficiency, but also to the replacement of part of the work so far done by people with the work of machines and software. In this article on the basis of the analysis of risk of automation for over seven hundred professions prepared by Frey and Osborne (2013) we estimate that the percentage of people employed in Poland who will be under the risk of losing their job as a result of computerisation and robotization amount to over 40%. We show that the risk of automation of professions is already significantly related to the employment rate. Moreover, people looking for employment in professions not threatened by automation find employment easier than unemployed people in the professions at high risk of automation. However, it should be noted that the process of adjusting labour market to the phenomenon of automation can also be observed. Part of the people professionally active change their profession and most often to a profession at a lower risk of automation. Also people who are just entering the labour market slightly more often take up work in professions which are at a lower risk of automation.