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The rise of age-friendly jobs in the US 

Promoting more ‘age-friendly’ jobs, for which older workers have a comparative preference or advantage, might raise employment at older ages. This column presents an index of the age-frie...

Prospects of the global economy after Covid-19

As the world is (hopefully) emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, major challenges await societies across the world related to climate change (Pisu et al. 2022), inequality (Angelov and Wa...

What are the dangers of unregulated AI? An expert explains

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often touted as the most exciting technology of our age, promising to transform our economies, lives, and capabilities. Some even see AI as making steady p...

Supporting our essential workers in an age of automation

The low-wage workers who make up nearly half of the US workforce have long been neglected, steadily falling behind highly educated workers in expanding industries such as technology, fina...

Why Universal Basic Income might not be the answer

Boston – Owing to the inadequacy of the social safety net in the United States and other developed countries, proposals for a universal basic income (UBI) are gaining in popularity. The g...

What role will technology play in the creation of high-paying jobs?

Around the world this May Day, policy proposals that would have appeared radical just a few years ago are now on the agenda. In the United States, for example, high marginal tax rates, we...

D’où viennent les bons emplois?

CAMBRIDGE – Dans maints pays, ce 1er mai, des politiques publiques, qui voici seulement quelques années auraient semblé radicales, sont envisagées. Ainsi, aux États-Unis, l’entrée en vigu...

The revolution need not be automated

For centuries after the Industrial Revolution, automation did not hinder wage and employment growth, because it was accompanied by new technologies geared toward maintaining the role of h...

The race between man and machine

Concerns that new digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and robotics will create widespread technological non-employment are now widespread. Various recent labour market trends, ...

Why Turkish growth ended

What really causes economic downturns?

Can offshoring cut inequality?

Duels, smoking and the problem with laws

Does democracy boost economic growth?