Konstantinos Pouliakas
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Konstantinos Pouliakas is a leading labour economist whose research sits at the intersection of technological change, skills mismatches, and the future of work. His most influential work, “Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach” (2018, 60 citations), provides a nuanced, data-driven framework for understanding which jobs are truly vulnerable to automation. Rather than relying on simplistic occupation-level predictions, Pouliakas’s approach drills down into the specific tasks and skill sets that make workers replaceable—or irreplaceable—by machines. This paper has become a cornerstone for policymakers and researchers grappling with the digital transformation of European labour markets. Beyond this, Pouliakas has made substantial contributions to the analysis of job quality, informal employment, and the effectiveness of active labour market policies. His work is distinguished by its rigorous use of large-scale survey data, particularly from the European Skills and Jobs Survey, and its direct relevance to EU employment strategy. For students and researchers, Pouliakas offers a model of how to blend technical econometrics with pressing real-world questions about inequality, reskilling, and the social contract in an age of disruption.
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