TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lergetporer, Philipp
AU  - Wedel, Katharina
AU  - Werner, Katharina
        TI  - Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train
        PY  - 2023/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16687
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16687
        AB  - We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in high-automatability occupations. Randomized information about their occupations' automatability increases respondents' concerns about their professional future, and expectations about future changes in their work environment. The information also increases willingness to participate in further training, especially among respondents in highly automatable occupation (+five percentage points). This uptick substantially narrows the gap in willingness to train between those in high- and low-automatability occupations.
        KW  - automation
KW  - further training
KW  - labor-market expectations
KW  - survey experiment
KW  - information
        ER  -