The study classifies “Automation and Artificial Intelligence in the Portuguese labor market: challenges and opportunities” 120 professions in Portugal more exposed to technological changes associated with digitization (Artificial intelligence and automation), based on destructive effects and possible transformation (i.e. integration with human work). According to the study, 28.8 % run “serious risks” to disappear when classified as “collapse professions”.
But there are major differences at the regional level: “Lisbon’s province highlights a large extent due to the largest concentration in employment in “increasing professions”, and at the same time, the low percentage of collapse professions.According to the analysis based on data from MTSSS, for 2021, it covers 3.2 million workers (approximately from the private sector).
second “Policy Paper”, which is part of a wider study that will remain, 32.8 % of employment in the Lisbon area is part of the “emerging professions” category, while only 27 % are framing in “collapsing professions”.
The fact that Lisbon is the region “with more employment intensity in the services sector, especially in intensive services for knowledge, which includes activities such as information technologies, consulting, financial services, higher education and scientific research”, may explain this circumstance, because this sector is characterized by more qualified interference. “
Besides Lisbon, VILA Real (25.8 %), Keimbra, Porto (both are 25.6 %) and Bragança (24.7 %) of other areas with employment in “increasing professions”.
On the other side, Braga, Aveiro, Viana de Castillo and Vizio are the “most automation and with little exposure to the transformative effects of Amnesty International”, they point to “. According to the analysis, the percentage of “collapse professions” in these areas exceeds 40 %.
“In the first three, The manufacturing sector plays a very important role, with large proportions of employment in low technology industriesWith emphasizing the researchers in the study coordinated by Rui Baptista, Professor at Instituto Superior Technical, noting that “the tasks that workers are often frequent and routine, using mature techniques, which are lower adoption costs. “
“The fact that they can be unified easily, given a degree of routine, which is associated with the costs of adopting low technology and international competition pressures, leading to a great exposure to workers on automation and threatening their jobs,” and adding, on the pretext that in these areas, in these areas, they are in these areas, “Political decision makers should pay special attention to the challenges of digitization, because the destruction of these actions can be very fast.”
In this study, the authors also provide a set of public policy recommendations, the invitation, that is, betting on various regional strategies, in order to alleviate the negative effects of digitization.
In the most vulnerable areas, such as Braga, Aveiro and Viana Do Castelo, “where destructive automation can have serious effects, initiatives for economic diversification and the creation of technology columns should be strengthened.”While in areas such as Lisbon, Puerto and Kevipra, it is important to enhance innovation and investment in advanced skills. “
