At the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: employment, skills, and labor market policies revisited

Today, we are at the beginning of a Fourth Industrial Revolution that will shake the current labor market paradigm. While the impending geopolitical, socio-demographic, and technological changes hold great promise, the patterns of consumption, production and employment created by it also pose major challenges requiring proactive adaptation by corporations, governments and individuals.

This course is a first step in understanding the current labor market problematics: identifying the issues at stake, reviewing labor market policies that have been/are being implemented, rethinking social protection, and preparing the next-generation workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Each module/session will be built around a presentation by the lecturer, followed by a short debate with the whole class. External speakers may be brought in to discuss their own field of research related to the module topic (TBC). The course will have a strong focus on data sources and how to build evidence on labor market issues.

For each course, you will be asked to read articles/papers or/and listen to a podcast or/and watch a video. The material will be discussed during the class debate.

 

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