This report was prepared by Elif Bahar and Marjolijn Moens from the Skills and Future Readiness Division of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS). Katharine Mullock and Anthea Bicakcioglu provided valuable inputs. The work was carried out under the supervision of Glenda Quintini (Head of the Skills and Future Readiness Division) and benefited from comments by Mark Pearson (Deputy Director of ELS), Stijn Broecke (Senior Economist Future of Work), and members of the Skills and Future Readiness Division, notably Julie Lassébie, Dzana Topalovic and Michele Tuccio. The report was presented at the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee (ELSAC) in October 2024. The authors would like to thank Natalie Corry and Saoirse Douglas for their editorial assistance. The report would not have been possible without data provided by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (Australia), the Center for Educational Research and Educational Information (Germany), SkillsFuture (Singapore) and Credential Engine (United States).
This publication contributes to the OECD’s Artificial Intelligence in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS) programme, which provides policy makers with new evidence and analysis to keep abreast of the fast-evolving changes in AI capabilities and diffusion and their implications for the world of work. The programme aims to help ensure that adoption of AI in the world of work is effective, beneficial to all, people‑centred and accepted by the population at large. AI-WIPS is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) and will complement the work of the German AI Observatory in the Ministry’s Policy Lab Digital, Work & Society. For more information, visit https://oecd.ai/work-innovation-productivity-skills and https://denkfabrik-bmas.de/.