Digital Inequalities & Employment

With Stefano de Marco (USAL) and Ellen Heslper (LSE), we conducted a multi-years, multi-methods, project asking how digital inequalities shape access to work and employment. 

Nowadays, most job seekers use the Internet for work and employment purposes and build upon their digital skills. However, these skills are unequally distributed and concentrate among people with higher educational and economic capital. We showed how this leads to digital and subsequently economic exclusion in the domain of work and employment. Read a pre-print made available by the London School of Economics here.

This project was funded by an I+D grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformations (MINECO). It belongs to the global DiSTO initiatives developing and improving measures of people’s digital skills and outcomes of ICTs.  Read the short presentation here. 

We also analysed the impact of digitial inequalities on education for the Foundation Reina Sofia. Read the full report here.