Higher Education and the importance of apprenticeships: United Kingdom & Germany

In 2017, youth unemployment (young people between 15-24, without work or enrolled in education) in the EU as a whole was on average of …

Are EU citizens ready for the forthcoming digital revolution?

Whether for personal or professional usage, the European Digital Single Market will revolutionise the economy of the European Union, but only if its citizens …

The Robot Tax: a levy on innovation, growth and job opportunities

During his recent electoral campaign, the defeated socialist French presidential candidate, Benoît Hamon, repeatedly hinted at a potentially radical proposal: To impose a tax …

Skill Mismatch: The New Challenge for Spain

As the Spanish economy recovers, rethinking education reform should be a top priority. Spanish workers are Europe’s most overqualified, but also suffer from the …

Education 4.0

Current schooling systems are badly equipped to deal with rapid technological innovation and changing work patterns such as the sharing economy and the rise …

The Economics of Industry 4.0

Viewed over the sweep of history, concerns about technological unemployment have always proved overblown. Over the last two-hundred years, technology has created more jobs …

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET

Part 2, for see part 1 here.
 
The great 20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter noted that it is not our technological capabilities that …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Labour

In 1821, at the height of the First Industrial Revolution, David Ricardo, one of the most influential classical economists of the late 1700s and …