The Future of Employment in the Digital Economy
September 7, 2018
A joint event of the Columbia Business School and SIPA. Its starting point was the unveiling of a new book, Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment, edited by Lorenzo Pupillo (Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels), Leonard Waverman (Dean, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada), and Eli Noam (Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia Business School and Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.) The book and the three panels of the conference addressed these topics:
- 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 included:
- Linda Bell, Provost, Barnard College, moderator and speaker
- Eli Noam, Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School
- Haig Nalbantian, Senior Partner, Mercer Workforce Sciences Institute
- Lorenzo Pupillo, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, moderator and speaker
- Paolo Naticchioni, Associate Professor, University of Roma Tre, Italy
- Robert Cohen, Fellow, Economic Strategy Institute
- Leonard Waverman, Dean, DeGroote School of Business, Canada, moderator and speaker
- David Viviano, Chief Economist, SAG-AFTRA (Labor Union)
- Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology an Innovation Foundation