Intensidad tecnológica y cualificaciones laborales en los servicios de la UE

Resumo

This paper wants to make one first approach to a valuation of the existing implications between the demand of labor qualifications and the technological necessities in the service activities among the European countries. The main aim is to analyze if a positive correlation between the level of qualifications in the services and the associated technological intensity to such exists or not, through the study of the labor occupations and the level of studies of the workers of the service sector; as well as a summary of the existing literature related to this subject. Not only it is analyzed the service sector as a whole, but this analysis is also undertaken with the different service categories, in order to analyze if these implications are homogenous to all the services, or, on the contrary, they display differences according to which service is analyzed. Also the different European countries are analyzed with the objective to display an European mapping of labor qualifications in the service sector.