How do citizens perceive labor market risks related to digitalization and the green transition, and how do these risk perceptions translate into preferences for social policies? We address these questions in this paper by studying the policy preferences of individual workers on how governments should deal with the two labor market challenges of digitalization and the green transition. Employing novel cross‐country comparative survey data including a vignette experiment for six advanced postindustrial economies, we probe to what extent the different labor market challenges are associated with differences in preferences, distinguishing between support for social investment policies on the one hand and compensatory policies on the other. A first finding is that even though individuals perceive different levels of labor market risk due to the green transition and digitalization, their preferences for social policy responses do not differ systematically across the two risks. Instead, we find that social policy preferences are affected by individual‐level and, to some extent, country‐level contextual factors. Confirming previous work, higher perceived labor market risk is associated with more support for compensatory policies but less support for social investment.

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数字化和绿色转型：不同的挑战，相同的政策应对？


公民如何看待与数字化和绿色转型相关的劳动力市场风险？这些风险认知如何转化为社会政策偏好？我们在本文中通过研究个体工人对政府应如何应对数字化和绿色转型这两个劳动力市场挑战的政策偏好来解决这些问题。我们采用新颖的跨国比较调查数据，包括对六个先进后工业经济体的小插曲实验，探讨了不同的劳动力市场挑战在多大程度上与偏好差异相关，区分了一方面对社会投资政策的支持和对社会投资政策的支持另一个。第一个发现是，尽管个人因绿色转型和数字化而感知到不同程度的劳动力市场风险，但他们对社会政策反应的偏好在这两种风险上并没有系统性差异。相反，我们发现社会政策偏好受到个人层面以及在某种程度上国家层面背景因素的影响。证实了之前的研究，较高的劳动力市场风险感知与对补偿政策的更多支持有关，但对社会投资的支持较少。