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Urgent investment in human capital is needed to create a fairer world> 1.1 billion jobs are liable to be radically transformed by technology in the next decade. The Reskilling Revolution will position education at the core of the economic recovery by updating teaching and education systems to effectively prepare today's students for tomorrow's economy and society. This work aims to benefit 150 million students and young learners by 2024.

Humans in the Loop uses the AI annotation market to create livelihoods opportunities for conflict-affected people and communities. This report summarizes how Humans in the Loop is impacting conflict-affected communities by connecting them to digital work programs and training during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This paper presents a review of current evidence and ideas relating to the digital gig economy (DGE): contingent (task- or project-based) intangible work delivered digitally and done for money, organised via online outsourcing platforms that are marketplaces bringing together buyers and sellers. Examples of such platforms include Freelancer, Upwork, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Zhubajie/Witmart.

The Online Labour Index 2020 (OLI 2020) allows for new forms of analyses regarding the development of online platform work. In this blog post, authors offer some insights into how these features can be used based on the example of descriptive statistics pointing towards a phenomenon that they call the ‘tech shift’.

This article draws on 70 interviews in addition to participant observations to highlight the role of gig economy platforms in producing a novel form of reputational insecurity. This insecurity is generated by platforms disrupting the traditional operation of industry reputation in freelance markets.

Discover the fastest-growing skills with the new Job Skills of 2024 Report from Coursera. This data-rich report draws on skills data from Coursera’s nearly 5 million enterprise learners across 3,000 businesses, 3,600 higher education institutions, and governments in over 100 countries.

This book offers insights into how public employment services can respond to the imminent challenges society and governments face in the rapidly changing world of work.

Unilever has used artificial intelligence to screen all entry-level employees. Candidates play neuroscience-based games to measure inherent traits, then have recorded interviews analyzed by AI. The company considers the experiment a big success and will continue it indefinitely.

This OECD policy brief on activation policies explores profiling tools for early identification of jobseekers who need extra support, using examples from Europe and the US.

What are search frictions? What role do they play in the analysis of markets? Why are they important? This paper answers these questions, providing context for issues related to job hunting and matching platforms.