Digitalisation and Employees' Subjective Job Quality in the Second Half of Working Life in Germany.

ABSTRACT: Since digitalisation alters occupational task profiles via automation processes, job quality is also likely to be affected. While existing literature mainly focusses on objective job quality, this study asks if and how digitalisation is associated with employees' subjective job quality in the second half of working life in Germany. Analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey 2014. Our sample includes n = 1541 employees aged 40-65 years who are subject to social insurance contributions. Subjective job quality is operationalised with regards to job satisfaction and perceived occupational stress in general, and ten aspects of job quality in detail. Digitalisation is approximated by substitution potentials of occupations. We control the association for compositional effects in the workforce

SUBMITTER: Kortmann LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8635314 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature