ICTs usage and skills matching at work: some evidence from Spain
| Autor: | Antonio Caparrós Ruiz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Matching (statistics) Knowledge management business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences 050301 education 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Work (electrical) Management of Technology and Innovation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics ICTS business 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Manpower. 42:1064-1083 |
| ISSN: | 0143-7720 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ijm-03-2020-0103 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis article focuses on the Spanish labour market, and its primary objectives are to analyse the factors determining the ICTs usage at workplace, and examine how the workers' e-skills match with the job tasks requiring ICTs. Furthermore, it will explore whether doing ICTs training activities has a positive effect on the probability of carrying out appropriately the ICTs at work.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology applied is an ordered response model analysing how the workers' e-skills match with the knowledge required to the ICTs usage at the job. This econometric specification will control by the selection bias generated because not all employees use ICTs to perform the job tasks. Data are obtained from the Survey on Equipment and Use of ICTs in Households (ICTS-H Survey).FindingsEducational attainment and the type of ICTs training are the most relevant variables to explain the ICTs usage and the quality of the job match.Research limitations/implicationsData used are cross-sectional, and it excludes the possibility of observing how the workers' careers evolve depending on their ICTs training.Practical implicationsThe methodology applied allows the authors to obtain the marginal effects to the variables explaining the probability of using ICTs at job, and how the workers' knowledge match with the e-skill required by the employers.Social implicationsThe results are a source of information to policymakers about how workers face the introduction of ICTs in the labour market.Originality/valueTo the best of author's knowledge, the article's topic and its methodology are unprecedented in the economic literature and, specially, in the Spanish case. |
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