Skewed Technological Change, Digital Skills, and Inequality

This book aims to shed additional light on the phenomenon of "skewed technological change" and to test this hypothesis in the Tunisian context. The estimation of an ordered multinomial logit model based on 902 employees working in the industrial, administrative, and service sectors confirms the existence of a technological bias favoring the most educated. However, it is not access to or the intensive use of ICT at work that favors certain employees over others in terms of compensation; rather, it is the quality of ICT use and the digital skills possessed by employees that contribute to widening inequalities. Moreover, it is the ability to search for, select, process, and evaluate information according to specific needs, and the ability to use it to achieve specific objectives and improve one's position in society, that lie at the heart of the issue-not merely the manipulation of digital technologies and their structures. Finally, organizational change also contributes to the amplification of existing wage inequalities.