DIGITALISATION, THE LABOUR MARKET AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

As in industrial revolutions in the past, labour markets in individual countries are facing changes under the impact of digitisation and automation. What makes the current situation different from those of the past is the speed with which new technologies are being introduced. Many jobs are undergoing major changes or disappearing altogether, while at the same time new jobs are being created. These require potential workers to have new skills or completely different qualifications. The challenge for education systems is therefore to respond to these demands in a timely manner, thereby avoiding a future situation where there is a structural mismatch between labour supply and labour demand. The aim of this paper is to theoretically define what changes are occurring in labour markets under the influence of digitisation and automation, how this affects education systems and what skills are required of workers. In addition, our aim is to find out how the unemployment rate in the Slovak Republic develops according to the level of education attained, what share of university graduates by groups of fields of study are registered at the labour office, or what share of university graduates work in the field they graduated from, and thus to point out the possible risks that the Slovak Republic will have to deal with.