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THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND THE THREAT OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
The current pace of progress raises widespread concerns about rising technological unemployment. One of the ways to face it will be to adapt the skills and abilities of workers to the new conditions. However, the development of digitalisation does not only place new requirements on traditional education systems, which are no longer able to train workers with adequate skills, but are also expected to lead to a change in the legal regulation of industrial relations. The aim of the article is to theoretically define what changes digital transformation brings to society, what is its essence and what impact it can have on the growth of unemployment. In addition, from the statistics available at Eurostat, to find out the situation in selected European countries in terms of internet accessibility and the digital skills of the population, as these are key indicators for the introduction of digitization elements, and to highlight how the last fifteen In recent years, the unemployment rate in the Slovak Republic developed depending on the level of education attained.
Vydanie: 2020/3 Strany: 43-51 Klasifikácia JEL: E24, I21, O30
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Kľúčové slová: digitization, digital skills, education system, Slovak Republic, unemployment
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Kontakty:
Ing. Veronika Žárská
Department of Management and Human resources development,
Faculty of Social and Economic Relations,
Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín
Študentská 3, 911 50 Trenčín
e- mail: veronika.zarska@tnuni.sk
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