Christopher Pissarides: 'I'd like to see a UK equivalent of Germany's Work 4.0 white paper'

Thomas, Anna (2018) Christopher Pissarides: 'I'd like to see a UK equivalent of Germany's Work 4.0 white paper'. LSE Business Review (22 Jun 2018). Website.

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In late 2016, the German government published the white paper ‘Work 4.0‘, the result of 18 months of discussion with academia, trade unions, employer organisations and the public. The paper was a blueprint for how society should face the technological disruption taking place in the world of work and business. This is what Sir Christopher Pissarides thinks the UK should do if it wants to create “new and preferably better jobs to take on labour that is displaced by technological advances”. Sir Christopher was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University and Peter Diamond of MIT, for his work in the economics of unemployment and other policy-relevant outcomes in markets with frictions. He is Regius Professor of Economics at LSE and co-chair of the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW). “I’d like to see a White Paper on the Future of Work within a couple of years – a UK equivalent of the German ‘Work 4.0”. He spoke with Anna Thomas, founding director of IFOW.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2018/06/22/c...
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HF Commerce T Technology > T Technology (General)
JEL classification:	O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development
Date Deposited:	28 Nov 2018 12:26
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 13:41
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90841

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