In the latest episode of the Santa Fe Insitute's Complexity podcast Maria del Rio-Chanona, DPhil candidate and member of INET's Complexity Economics group, talks about the labour market and technological change. Today many people worry about automation and robot displacing workers. Maria argues that to understand the potential impact of automation on employment better, one must not only focus on the automatability of a workers' occupations but also on the workers' skills and alternative jobs they can transition into. Find out more about this work and the labour market agent-based model developed by the INET Complexity Economics group by listening to the podcast here. (50 mins approximately)
24 Jan 20
Latest News
All News
Press release: Targeted support needed to prevent automation hitting low wage workers hardest

Press release: 21st century crises, from the global financial crisis to COVID, demand new economic understanding, say top economists

INET Oxford research inspires new 'Green Recovery Now' movement

Female-breadwinner families on the breadline

Bringing women on board: How government policies can improve gender diversity in top jobs

Report: Sensitive intervention points to achieve net-zero emissions

INET Oxford’s Linus Mattauch wins Robert Bosch Junior Professorship

World's first universal jobs guarantee experiment - Business Insider feature on INET Oxford research

Perpetual bonds as a way out of EU fiscal paralysis - George Soros in Project Syndicate

Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

FT interview: Prof Doyne Farmer on using contracts to gauge economic health

20th November is Equal Pay Day
