The Need for (Increased) ICT Skills in the Era of Digitalization

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Author(s): Nicole Palan (University of Graz, Austria)and Andreas Schober (University of Graz, Austria)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 22
Source title: IT and the Development of Digital Skills and Competences in Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (University of Oviedo, Spain), Miltiadis D. Lytras (American College of Greece, Greece & Effat University, Saudi Arabia)and Xi Zhang (Tianjin University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4972-8.ch003

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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Automation and digitalization have had profound effects on job losses as well as on skill requirements in advanced economies. This chapter analyzes the spatial distribution of ICT-skills requirements by analyzing some 73,000 job offers for the Austrian region of Styria. This region is characterized by a large variability of specialization patterns throughout its districts as well as differences regarding population density and infrastructure accessibility. The analysis allows to draw conclusions on the need for both basic and special ICT-skills for different education levels for 287 municipalities. The results also draw light on problems related to the new “digital divide” indicating the phenomenon that people have access to digital infrastructure but not yet acquired the digital competences to find work. One interesting conclusion is also that high-skill ICT-requiring jobs have the highest level of agglomeration – both compared with other skill-levels and with non-ICT related academic job positions.

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