The New Wave? The Role of Human Capital and STEM Skills in Technology Adoption in the UK.

Autor/inn/en	Draca, Mirko; Nathan, Max; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; Oliveira-Cunha, Juliana; Rosso, Anna; Valero, Anna
Institution	University of Warwick / Department of Economics
Titel	The New Wave? The Role of Human Capital and STEM Skills in Technology Adoption in the UK. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die neue Welle? Die Rolle von Humankapital und MINT-Fähigkeiten bei der Technologieeinführung in Großbritannien.
Quelle	Coventry (2024), 51 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Warwick economic research papers. 1521
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Künstliche Intelligenz; Maschinelles Lernen; Personal Computer; Natürliche Sprache; Computerlinguistik; Datenspeicherung; Spitzentechnologie; Technologische Entwicklung; Diffusion; Humankapital; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsanforderung; Qualifikationsstruktur; MINT-Beruf; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Which types of human capital influence the adoption of advanced technologies? We study the skill-biased adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) across two waves in the UK. Specifically, we compare the new wave of cloud and machine learning / AI technologies during the 2010s - pre-LLM - with the previous wave of personal computer adoption in the 1990s and early 2000s. At the area-level we see the emergence of a distinct STEM-biased adoption effect for the second wave of cloud and machine learning / AI technologies (ML/AI), alongside a general skill-biased effect. A one-standard deviation increase in the baseline share of STEM workers in areas is associated with around 0.3 of a standard deviation higher adoption of cloud and ML/AI. We find similar effects at the firm level where we are able to test for the influence of a wide range of skills. In turn, this STEM-biased adoption pattern has encouraged the concentration of these technologies, leading to more acute differences between high-tech and low-tech areas and firms. In contrast with classical technology diffusion, recent cloud and ML/AI adoption in the UK seems more likely to widen inequalities than reduce them" The study refers to the period 2012-2019 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/2