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Productivity, Employment, and Inequality | MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

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What will the workforce of the future look like, and how can we accelerate the transformation of institutions, organizations, and human skills to keep up with the quickening pace of digital innovation?  Understanding the future of the workforce in a rapidly changing global economy The IDE helps businesses understand how the digital economy will improve job creation and wage equality in the years to come. Our research also seeks to create a better method of measuring the health of an economy in the context of the digital age.

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United States
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Employment
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Can a universal basic income resolve future income security challenges?

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Can a universal basic income resolve future income security challenges? Universal basic income approaches are currently high on the agenda as possible policy options to resolve the income security challenges that emerge on the one hand from new forms of work in the wake of digitalization and automation, as well as from informal and precarious employment. 

 

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Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
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Extension of coverage
Inequalities
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Labour market
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Forrester Predicts Automation Will Displace 24.7 Million Jobs And Add 14.9 Million Jobs By 2027

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forrester.com (03.04.2017) Forrester released an update to its Future Of Jobs research, which predicts how robots, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the workforce over the next 10 years. While automation and related technologies will inevitably displace some of the workforce, Forrester argues that the technology will transform the workforce by adding new jobs or changing existing jobs, rather than completely displacing workers.

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Unemployment
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Labour market
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Moody's: Emerging markets' ability to adapt to technology crucial as robotics use surges

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Global Credit Research (17.05.2017)  The accelerating adoption of robotics in manufacturing in some of the worlds' more advanced economies could pose challenges to emerging market exporters that have benefited from their comparative advantage of lower cost, high skilled labor, says Moody's Investors Service in a report.

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Employment
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Large-scale automation
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Uber: sus primeros coches autónomos arrancan operaciones en Pittsburgh

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xataka.com (14.09.2016) Pues al final Uber logró adelantarse a todos, bueno, casi a todos si no contamos el caso de NuTonomy en Singapur, ya que hoy la compañía ha arrancado con la operación de sus primeros coches autónomos que estarán dando servicio en las calles de Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tal y como lo prometieron hace un mes.

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United States
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Employment
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Large-scale automation
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France: Demain, tous nomades au travail?

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Les Echos (06.06.2017) Le développement des nouvelles technologies, des outils communicants, les impératifs croissants de réactivité, l'aspiration des salariés à une meilleure articulation entre vie pro et perso, conduit les entreprises à repenser leur organisation physique. Un changement de fond, dont elles ont tout intérêt à tirer profit.

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france
Topics
Employment
Employment of young workers
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
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Travailleurs détachés : un vaste système de fraude mis au jour dans le secteur agricole

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Regions / Country
france
Topics
Employment
Migration
Error, evasion and fraud
Old_Global Challenges
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
New risks
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Russian, US Scientists Team Up to Create World's Most Advanced Quantum Computer - Sputnik International

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Russian Federation
Topics
Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Old_Global Challenges
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Large-scale automation
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