Future of High-Skilled Workers

Ingrid Kofler is a sociologist. She is Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy. She has held Visiting Researcher positions at the 21st Century Global Dynamics initiative, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), Germany.Elisa Innerhofer is a business economist and political scientist. She is Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research.Anja Marcher is a geographer and researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research. She is also a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, Austria.Mirjam Gruber is a political scientist. She is a researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig’s Institute of Political Science. Harald Pechlaner is a business economist. He isHead of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research, and Professor of Tourism and Head of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

• 1. Introduction .- 2. The future of high-skilled work – main developments and drivers of change .- 3. The high-skilled workers of tomorrow .- 4. Shaping the future organization of work and life .- 5. Does “place” matter? The importance of location factors .- 6. Specific case study: South Tyrol .- 7. Discussion and conclusion.