THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE INFORMATION-SOCIETY - A COMPARATIVE, LONGITUDINAL AND MULTILEVEL STUDY

The rise of the information society has been accompanied by an endurin g and high level of unemployment, This paper aims to analyse the relat ionship between information technology and employment as a 'systemic p roperty' of societies, in terms of 'per capita labour demand'. Combini ng studies at various levels of aggregation, the paper concludes that, in the long run, technological development results in declining level s of employment, In a next step, differences in the employment structu res of various developed countries are analysed, This produces an idea of the different possible futures of work in the information society.