[Air-L] WEBCAST TODAY: The Future of Employment in the Digital Economy #digitizedlabor

[Joly MacFie]

 I actually forgot a vital bit of kit so the stream limped on the day of
this, but I have now edited my recording, and dropped in slides etc, for
the full HD experience. This is an excellent topic, thoroughly explored by
top experts, briefly at the event and in detail in the accompanying book,
which can be previewed here <https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319770468>
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<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319770468>On *September
21 2018* at *13:00 EDT/17:00 UTC* the *Internet Society Livestream Channel
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/employment/>* will restream *The
Future of Employment in the Digital Economy
<https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/2226176/flyerforseptember7v5.jpg>* – a
conference that took place at Columbia University on Sep 7 2018. A critical
issue facing the US economy is the transformative effect of the internet on
the nature of work and employment. There is growth, innovation,
productivity rise, and price reductions. But there is also offshoring,
disruption, automation, squeeze of retailing, and others. These shifts have
been exacerbated by new technologies and have affected the 2016 US
Presidential campaign. This conference – a joint event of the Columbia
Business School and Columbia School of International Public Affairs – began
with the unveiling of a new book, *Digitized Labor: The Impact of the
Internet on Employment <https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319770468>* which
addresses these topics, e.g. *Is the Internet a net creator of jobs? What
are the impacts on income distribution? How are job profiles changed by the
digital economy? What models can facilitate adjustment without slowing
innovation?*Speakers, who included several of the book’s contributors,
were *Linda
Bell*, Provost, Barnard College; *Robert Cohen*, Fellow, Economic Strategy
Institute; *Haig Nalbantian*, Senior Partner, Mercer Workforce Sciences
Institute; *Eli Noam*, Professor of Economics, Columbia Business
School; *Lorenzo
Pupillo*, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels; *Raffaella Rumiati*,
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the School of Advanced Studies of
Trieste, Italy; *Vincenzo Spiezia*, Head of the Information and
Communication Technologies Unit of the DSTI at the OECD; *David Viviano*,
Chief Economist, SAG-AFTRA (Labor Union); *Leonard Waverman*, Dean,
DeGroote School of Business, Canada; and *Robert Atkinson*, President,
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.


*View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/employment
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/employment>Twitter:
#digitizedlabor https://bit.ly/digitizedlabor
<https://bit.ly/digitizedlabor>*


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