RT Journal Article
T1 Skills Requirements Across Task-Content Groups in Poland: What Online Job Offers Tell Us
A1 Arendt, Lukasz
A1 Galecka-Burdziak, Ewa
A1 Núñez, Fernando
A1 Pater, Robert
A1 Usabiaga Ibáñez, Carlos
K1 Online job offers
K1 Routinisation
K1 Job polarisation
K1 Skills requirements
K1 Logistic regression
AB Dynamic digitalisation has a profound impact on labour markets, leading to routinisation and job polarisation processes. Most studies on labour polarisation use employment data to track changes in labour demand and incomes across routine and non-routine jobs. In this paper we utilise a database of online job postings published on Polish websites in the period 2017-2019 to map skills the requirements in respective task-content groups. We observe little evidence of job polarisation in the Polish vacancy market, with cognitive, communication, availability, technical, and self-organisation skills being in high demand regardless of the task-content group. With the use of logistic regression we find that non-routine and routine cognitive jobs require a quite extensive, and similar skill-mix. Multinomial logistic results show that  communication and cognitive skills enhance the employability in non-routine and routine cognitive jobs, while in the case of non-routine manual jobs these are availability, mathematical and interpersonal skills. Based on these findings, we conclude that the lifelong learning system should focus on developing the transversal skills required in jobs resilient to automation (non-routine jobs). Moreover, we argue that enhancing the transition from routine to non-routine jobs by providing the required transversal skills plays and important role in reducing social inequalities.
PB Elsevier
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22156
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22156
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NO Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 187 (2023), 12245
NO JEL Codes: C38, C55, J24, O33.Acknowledgements:We acknowledge the useful comments and suggestions received from the Editor and the anonymous referees of this journal, the participants in the 35th National Conference of Labour Economics (Italian Association of Labour Economists, 2020), 22nd INFER Annual Conference (2020), XXIII Encuentro de Economía Aplicada (2021), XIV Jornadas de Economía Laboral (2021), and Pablo Álvarez de Toledo. The usual disclaimer applies.
NO Proyectos de investigaciónNational Science Centre, Poland (contract number 2016/23/B/HS4/00334). Project: The polarisation of the Polish labour market in the context of technical change.Research Group PAIDI SEJ-513 (Andalusian Government).Project ECO2017-86780-R (Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities).Project I+D+i P20-00808 (Andalusian Board).
NO Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026