LEADER 02334nam 22003613a 450 001 9910831803203321 005 20250710152355.0 010 $a9789286155192 010 $a9286155190 035 $a(CKB)5690000000124158 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4d75e209-20c7-4ccf-a91f-bafba50f3c6d 035 $a(ScCtBLL)f2b4af00-dbb9-4fdf-9d58-f3163fdbd5f1 035 $a(EXLCZ)995690000000124158 100 $a20240402i20232024 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEIB Working Paper 2023/01 - Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training : $eComplements or substitutes? /$fEuropean Investment Bank 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cEuropean Investment Bank,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (56 p.) 330 $a" The use of advanced digital technologies such as 3D printing, advanced robotics, drones, big data analytics and artificial intelligence is spreading. These technologies have uncertain implications for labour demand. Affected workers may need to re-train to adapt to changing tasks or new jobs. At the same time, it is unclear whether or not advanced digital technologies encourage firms to invest in workforce re-training. Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, this paper shows that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee, after adopting advanced digital technologies. It estimates, with a control function approach, firm-level production functions augmented with two factors: training per employee and digital technology use. We show that these are in fact substitutes in production, implying that an increase in the former negatively affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing advanced digital technologies reduces employers' investment in training per employee. These findings point to challenges in realising high levels of firm-sponsored training for employees in increasingly digital economies. " 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2bisacsh 606 $aEconomics 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 615 0$aEconomics. 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831803203321 996 $aEIB Working Paper 2023$93396814 997 $aUNINA