Tag: inequality

Laboratory Grown Meat

Aim

Process

FocusThis Summer Research Scholarship was dedicated to analysing what the public sector could look like in 2035, in order for the IRD and related agencies to plan and prepare.To identify what the public sector could look like in 2035, things that had the capacity to change the public landscape (i.e. drivers of change) were identified and researched. Nine key drivers were analysed. The most significant driver and topic of this poster was Disruptive Technology. Two questions were asked of the research: Firstly, what is happening with this driver? And more specifically, so what does this mean for the IRD […]

Asia’s workers will benefit from new technologies, but government action is also needed: ADB study

MANILA, April 11 (Xinhua) — Technological advances have transformed the two billion workers in Asian labor market, helping create 30 million jobs annually in industry and services over the last 25 years, driving increases in productivity and wages, and reducing poverty, says a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) released on Wednesday.

New research on how technology affects jobs, the subject of the special theme chapter in the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2018 report, points out that while some of the region’s jobs will be eliminated through automation, countervailing forces will more than compensate against job losses.

ADO is […]

Analysis: Loss of factory jobs needn’t spell doom for nations, IMF Says

WASHINGTON — Economies don’t necessarily have less growth or higher income inequality as factory jobs become more scarce, the International Monetary Fund said.

Manufacturing’s share of employment has been declining in advanced economies for almost five decades, the IMF said Monday in an analysis that’s part of its latest World Economic Outlook.

The fall in factory employment has worried some economists and policymakers, who often see manufacturing as a key catalyst for a nation’s productivity growth and a solid source of good-paying jobs for lower-skilled workers.President Donald Trump has said he would revive the U.S. manufacturing sector and bring back jobs […]

Loss of Factory Jobs Needn’t Spell Doom for Nations, IMF Says

Loss of Factory Jobs Needn't Spell Doom for Nations, IMF Says

Productivity growth doesn’t necessarily slow, fund says

President Trump has vowed to revive U.S. manufacturing sector

Economies don’t necessarily suffer lower growth or higher income inequality as factory jobs become more scarce, the International Monetary Fund said.Manufacturing’s share of employment has been declining in advanced economies for almost five decades, the IMF said Monday in an analysis that’s part of its latest World Economic Outlook. The full report, including the fund’s updated global economic forecasts, will be released April 17 at the IMF’s annual spring meeting in Washington.The slide in factory employment has worried some economists and […]

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

Unease over the role of automation-related job losses has risen in recent years, spawning academic conferences, research studies and a host of news stories. To be sure, productivity growth through better automation and work processes should be a welcomed feature of any economy.

There is a justified concern, however, for workers who find themselves unable to work due to obsolete skills. That worry is the basis for significant investments in workforce training and skill enhancements in every state, but what if there’s more to the problem? Does the risk of automation-related job losses effect more than labor market outcomes?

That question […]

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

© Getty Images Unease over the role of automation-related job losses has risen in recent years, spawning academic conferences, research studies and a host of news stories. To be sure, productivity growth through better automation and work processes should be a welcomed feature of any economy.

There is a justified concern, however, for workers who find themselves unable to work due to obsolete skills. That worry is the basis for significant investments in workforce training and skill enhancements in every state, but what if there’s more to the problem? Does the risk of automation-related job losses effect more than labor […]

Churchill: Self-driving cars will run over workers

Churchill: Self-driving cars will run over workers

Albany

The election of Donald Trump was supposed to be a wake-up call. The shock of his success, we were told, would lead the political establishment to finally start paying attention to working-class Americans and forgotten workers.

Has that happened?Well, an optimist could point out that manufacturing jobs have been roaring back since Trump’s election. A pessimist, though, need only note the attitude among Republicans and Democrats alike toward a big technological change coming our way: self-driving cars.Now, corporate America is thrilled about autonomous vehicles, as they’re also called, and for an obvious reason: Many companies will save gobs […]

With automation threatening jobs Canada needs to form an action

Cognitive. Robotic Process. “vital role to play in generating keyword recognition” for workforce and makes up more than 25 percent of total global labor costs [3]. unemployment caused by automation and globalisation have been flagged; they are probably exaggerated, but significant upheaval is by: (i) tailoring or adapting them to the new forms of employment; or (ii) decoupling them entirely from . To the 23 Oct 2017 In the Steelcase metal factory, automation has led the company to seek out more highly educated managers, who are now expected to have a college degree, not just a high-school diploma. Enter […]

Employment is not in jeopardy; Your salary Yes

Employment is not in jeopardy; Your salary Yes

More information The age of algorithm has arrived and your data is a treasure

The precarious ones of new digital economy

The work mutation Are robots, supercomputers and algorithms going to finish with work? Are we about to enter a post-industrial world where employment will be a rare warning that only a privileged group will have access to? These questions are increasingly common in view of technological revolution that threatens to replace people by machines. But, contrary to widespread notion that age of employment is coming to an end, a recent study concludes that automation does not reduce number […]

AI is rapidly changing the types and location of the best paying jobs

AI is rapidly changing the types and location of the best paying jobs

Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is not likely to cause vast unemployment, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be concern about the impact on jobs.

“I’m not worried about technological unemployment,” said Laura Tyson, a prominent economist at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. “But I am worried about the quality of jobs created and the location where they are created.”

Speaking this week at EmTech Digital, an annual AI conference organized by MIT Technology Review , Tyson suggested we look the effects of increasing automation over the last 30 years. What we know, says Tyson, […]