Digitalisation of jobs and gender-age segregation in digital tasks: Cross-country evidence based on ESJS2 data

Sebastian Leitner and Stella Zilian

No 269, wiiw Working Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: This paper addresses the disproportional effects of digitalisation across age by investigating (i) within-job age segregation in tasks by digital intensity; (ii) within-job age disparities in digital upskilling; (iii) age inequalities in wage returns to digital job tasks; and (iv) the role of gender in this age segregation and inequalities. The analysis is based on data of Cedefop’s second wave of the European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS2), conducted in 2021. First results of the analysis show that even when controlling for occupation-industry job pairs apart from using other explanatory variables, age segregation and gender gaps are prevalent in the case of digital skill intensity of tasks performed in the jobs of employees, though not in the case of digital upskilling via training measures. Applying the same appropriate controls, we also find that higher within-job digital skill intensity is associated with higher hourly wages. Gender wage gaps are sizable across all skill intensity categories in addition to widening in older age groups.

Keywords: Age inequalities; earnings; gender gaps; job segregation; digital skills; tasks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J08 J14 J16 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages including 3 Tables and 8 Figures
Date: 2025-12
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