Abstract We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but additionally with respect to non-cognitive skills (personality). We measure the direction of technological change by estimated future digitalization probabilities of occupations, and non-cognitive skills by the Big Five personality traits from four German worker surveys. Even though we control for education and work experience, we find that workers who are more open to experience, emotionally more stable and less agreeable will tend to be less susceptible to digitalization. We also find that future technological progress may not continue to hollow out the middle class as much as it did in the recent past. These results suggest that education and labor market policies should put more emphasis on children’s and workers’ personalities to strengthen their labor market resilience in the digital age.

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工人个性：数字时代教育之外的另一个技能偏见

摘要我们提供的经验证据表明，数字时代的技术进步将不仅在通过教育获得的技能方面存在偏见，而且在非认知技能（人格）方面也存在偏见。我们通过估计的未来数字化职业可能性和非认知技能（通过来自四项德国工人调查的五种人格特质）来衡量技术变革的方向。即使我们控制着教育和工作经验，但我们发现，对体验更开放，情绪上更稳定，不那么乐于接受的工人往往更不容易受到数字化的影响。我们还发现，未来的技术进步可能不会像最近那样继续使中产阶级陷于空洞。