Research project Technological inequality – understanding the relation between recent technological innovations and s

Technological innovations, such as robotics and machine learning, promise great potential for increasing productivity and welfare. However, innovations may also impact social inequalities (income, skills, wellbeing and health).
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Our goal is to improve the understanding of the relation between current technological innovations and social inequalities by:
•    Providing better predictions of the consequences of technological innovations for the European labour markets.
•    Understanding which skills are crucial for productive growth and how skill differences can lead to inequalities in income, education, wellbeing and health.
•    Researching how education can prepare today's children and workers for tomorrow's labour market.
•    Assessing how governments can avoid large-scale poverty caused by technological unemployment.
•    Investigating what the consequences of automation (and unemployment) are for public finances.
•    Drawing lessons from earlier technological revolutions.

This research project has no members.

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