Research project Technological inequality – understanding the relation between recent technological innovations and s
Technological innovations, such as robotics and machine learning, promise great potential for increasing productivity and welfare. However, innovations may also impact social inequalities (income, skills, wellbeing and health).
Our goal is to improve the understanding of the relation between current technological innovations and social inequalities by:
• Providing better predictions of the consequences of technological innovations for the European labour markets.
• Understanding which skills are crucial for productive growth and how skill differences can lead to inequalities in income, education, wellbeing and health.
• Researching how education can prepare today's children and workers for tomorrow's labour market.
• Assessing how governments can avoid large-scale poverty caused by technological unemployment.
• Investigating what the consequences of automation (and unemployment) are for public finances.
• Drawing lessons from earlier technological revolutions.
Project members
Members
Tomas Korpi
Professor
