Digitalisation and work: from hype to policy challenges
Digitalisation and work: from hype to policy challenges
Abstract
There has been an unending stream of reports, discussions, and opinion pieces on the impact of digitalisation on work. Robotisation and job loss, platform work and precarity, ICT-use and skills mismatches, etc. In this intervention we discuss how policy makers should take a step back, separate the hype from the structural trends, and focus policy efforts in two domains. Firstly, on counterbalancing the rising power inequality in shaping digitalisation-related labor market trends. And secondly, on the specific quality-of-work related impacts of digitalisation.
Date
Mar 4, 2020
Event
EZA Conference ‘European Social Deal - Where do we stand today?’
Location
Brussels
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