Firms, Technological innovation, Digital competencies, and Labour markets dynamics

In this contribution, we aim to conduct a factorial survey experiment to analyse the degree to which recruiters in different productive and institutional systems rely on information about job candidates’ digital skills to evaluate their suitability for different job vacancies. Specifically, we aim to answer the following questions: Do digital skills, relative to other individual attributes of jobseekers, play any specific role in the process of recruitment? What is the importance of different skill levels for raising job candidates’ appeal? The experiment will be replicated in three European countries with very different labour markets and systems of education and training: Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.