Sharing the Gains of Automation: The Role of Fiscal Policy
Careful calibration of spending and tax policies can reduce inequality caused by automation.
What Pandemics Mean for Robots and Inequality
By Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Jiae Yoo
From car manufacture to self-service checkouts, we all see how automation can transform the world of work—with lower costs and higher productivity on one hand, and more precarious employment for people on the other. […]
Technology and the Future of Work
By Adrian Peralta, and Agustin Roitman
May 1, 2018
Versions in عربي (Arabic), baˈhasa indoneˈsia(Indonesian), 中文 (Chinese), Español (Spanish), 日本語 (Japanese), Português (Portuguese), Русский (Russian)
Technology impacts how we work (photo: BSIP/Newscom).
Many feel anxious about the impact of new technology on their jobs. This is not new. In fact, it dates back at least to the Luddites movement at the outset of the Industrial Revolution. And it resurfaced during the Great Depression and again in the 1960s, following a period of high productivity growth, and in the 1980s at the outset of the IT revolution.
How can governments help? By investing in peoples’ skills. […]