AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let’s Make Sure It Benefits Humanity.

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 01/16/2024 - 15:30

imf.org (14.01.2024) AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others. We need a careful balance of policies to tap its potential.

Global challenges
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Artificial intelligence
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Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems : How to Finance More Resilient Health Systems When Money Is Tight?

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 01/15/2024 - 15:33

OECD (11.01.2024) Finding sufficient funds to pay for more resilient health systems is challenging in the current economic context. COVID-19 has shown the need for additional targeted spending on public health interventions, the digital transformation of health systems, and bolstering the health workforce. Rising incomes, technological innovation and changing demographics put further upward pressure on health spending. This could result in health spending reaching 11.8% of GDP across OECD counties by 2040.

Global challenges
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Health
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France leads charge to rewrite platform workers’ rulebook

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 15:58

Euractiv (12.01.2024) Last month, a coalition of EU countries blocked the provisional agreement on the Platform Workers Directive. But while the Belgian EU Council presidency wants to use the political deal as the starting point for future discussion, Paris wants a more comprehensive file reshaping.

Regions / Country
european union
Digital plateform workers
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Policy approaches to formalizing informal employment in the formal sector in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 14:29

ESCAP (14.12.2023) The report compiles existing policy tools and and good practices adopted by Governments in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean on formalizing informal employment in the formal sector. To provide a framework for understanding the full range of good practices on formalizing the employment of informal workers in the formal sector, the report sets out the integrated strategic policy approach outlined by ILO Recommendation No. 204 on facilitating the transition to formality.

Regions / Country
Americas
Global challenges
Topics
Extension of coverage
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Biden administration to unveil contractor rule that could upend gig economy

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 01/09/2024 - 11:06

Reuters (08.01.2024) The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden will release a final rule as soon as this week that will make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors rather than employees that typically cost a company more, an administration official said. The U.S. Department of Labor rule, which was first proposed in 2022 and is likely to face legal challenges, will require that workers be considered employees entitled to more benefits and legal protections than contractors when they are "economically dependent" on a company.

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United States
Topics
Difficult-to-cover groups
Digital plateform workers
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Social protection of the self-employed in old age in the EU

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 01/08/2024 - 15:45

STANOVNIŠTVO, 2023, 61(2) In most European Union (EU) Member States, self-employed individuals receive, on average, lower retirement pensions than employees. Furthermore, the number of self-employed pensioners is lower, and there is a significant proportion of self-employed workers in the EU who are not entitled to a retirement pension. The situation is even more delicate for the new self-employed, as their mode of labour market participation, career trajectory, and the income level they reach can potentially compromise their future pension prospects.

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european union
Topics
Old-age pensions

China’s population: Beijing urged to build digitally inclusive society, as it seeks insights into technical skills of its elderly

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 01/05/2024 - 15:46

South China Morning Post (03.01.2024) Questions for people aged 60 and above were added to a survey on population changes and the labour force, including their ability to use a smartphone. A demographer urged China, one of the world’s fastest ageing countries, to ‘build a digitally inclusive society’, while firms were asked to produce age-friendly products

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china
Global challenges
Topics
Old-age pensions
Digital inclusion
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Social Insurance for Gig Workers: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Malaysia

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 15:53

worldbank.org (14.12.2023) The rise of “gig” or digital platform work globally has led to both enthusiasm for its potential to create lucrative employment for large numbers of people, as well as concern about its implications for worker protection that is often provided in more standard employment. While gig work platforms may not be akin to employers in standard work relationships, arrangements that do not obligate them to provide worker protection and social insurance contributions may leave several platform workers unprotected against a range of risks.

Regions / Country
malaysia
Digital plateform workers

An unfinished task? Matching the Platform Work Directive with the EU and international "social acquis"

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 15:58

ILO Working paper 101 (20.12.2023) This paper seeks to explore the key emerging regulatory dimensions of platform work. It contextualizes the challenges associated with platform work as an expression of the consolidated features that, in the past decades, have been transforming the labour market: non-standardization and the deregulation of employment relationships.

Digital plateform workers

Retirement ages on the rise to protect pension systems, OECD says

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 12/19/2023 - 16:38

thenationalnews.com (14.12.2023) Millions of people globally will have no choice but to work into their seventies to ease increasing pressure on pension systems as life expectancy rates continue to rise, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said. OECD countries are moving to increase statutory retirement ages, curb early retirement and offer employees incentives to work longer to boost the sustainability of their pension systems, the Paris-based organisation said in its Pensions at a Glance 2023 report.

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Pensions
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