📜 Key Output #2 – The #ValueFacturingSMEs Decalogue 10 key principles to support #SMEs and #socialpartners for a fairer, more inclusive role in global value chains. 🌍 The ValueFacturing SMEs Decalogue is now available: 🔗 ENG version: digitalsme.eu/digital/upload…

🎙️ Key Output #3 – The #ValueFacturingSMEs Podcast Series Real voices, real stories. The Project podcast series explores the challenges and opportunities for SMEs in global value chains. 🎧 Listen to the full series here: 🔗 digitalsme.eu/projects/value…

📽️ Key Output #4 – #ValueFacturingSMEs Partner Videos What have we learned over two years of collaboration? Check out the key messages from Project partners, available on the YouTube channel of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance ▶️ Watch here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

In 2024, 6.6% of employed people aged 20 to 64 in the EU worked long hours, defined as usually spending 49 hours or more weekly in their main job. 💼👷 Highest shares in: 🇬🇷Greece (12.4%) 🇨🇾Cyprus (10.0%) Lowest in: 🇧🇬Bulgaria (0.4%) 🇱🇻Latvia (1.0%) 👉europa.eu/!kJg8CW

Examining the gender gap in log earnings among full-time, college-educated workers born between 1931 and 1984, from Joseph G. Altonji, John Eric Humphries, Yagmur Yuksel, and Ling Zhong nber.org/papers/w34133

Characteristics such as social class and education shape how people perceive the usefulness of VET. Is it a tool to manage the twin transition or rather an insurance against the risk of unemployment? In this paper, the authors attempt to provide an answer urly.it/31bwa8

Well designed #paternityleave makes #Spain a model of success cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATI… via Centre for Economic Performance . . . ADAPTwelfare

Future of Work - ADAPT

Future of Work - ADAPT

Aligning Youth #Apprenticeship and #Career and Technical Education - Present Connections and Future Opportunities urban.org/research/publi… via Urban Institute . . . FareApprendistato

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Jisoo Hwang and Inkyung Yoo study changes in the motherhood effect on earnings amid rising childlessness in South Korea. They find that earnings losses after childbirth have increased across recent cohorts of mothers. rfberlin.com/network-paper/…

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Is AI already impacting the job market? A new paper from me, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Ruyu Chen at Stanford Digital Economy Lab digs into data from ADP. We find some of the ***first large-scale evidence of employment declines for entry-level workers in AI-exposed jobs.*** A thread on our paper:

🆕 Now you can check data on #digitalisation risks at work at the #OSH Barometer! 🔎 Effects on #workload 🔎 Impact on autonomy 🔎 Use for #WorkMonitoring … and more! 🔗 osha.europa.eu/en/highlights/… #OSHdata #DataVisualisation

How Taking a #Vacation Improves Your #WellBeing hbr.org/2023/07/how-ta… via Harvard Business Review

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Casting a light on dependent contractors: a new statistical and increasingly important category. While dependent contractors have long existed as a group of workers, they have only been made visible in official statistics recently. ilostat.ilo.org/blog/casting-a… via International Labour Organization

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/c… by Erik Brynjolfsson, @ruyuchen, Bharat Chandar via Stanford Digital Economy Lab

📢 Great news! The #ValueFacturingSMEs Decalogue is now available in all EU & project languages 🌍 👉 Access the full set of translations in the Project Library: digitalsme.eu/projects/value…

Towards a directive on #justtransition within the European Union? : a draft proposal exercise cadmus.eui.eu/entities/publi… via European University Institute by Lucien Carré and Paolo Tomassetti