Robots, unemployment, green deal: What can we learn from technological revolutions?
Organizado por: Fac. de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales
- Información del evento
- calendar_today 11 de marzo de 2021
- access_time 17:30
- room Online
*Actividad en inglés
The growing use of robots in the current ICT revolution has sparked a serious debate about the potential threat robots pose to human labour. In parallel, the convergence towards a more sustainable economy has caused a transformation of firms and a consequent restructuring of employment. In this article we investigate the problem of technological unemployment and environmental rebound effect by looking at how relationships between jobless growth, industrial robots usage, CO2 emissions, and renewable energy consumption changed over time in China and South Korea. Findings from a competition model based on differential equations for the period 2008¿2018 show that robots do not always increase unemployment growth. On the other hand, the type of relationship between unemployment and sustainable use of energy changes over time, questioning the possibility of a smart green new deal.
Sobre la oradora:
Prof. Chiara Natalie Focacci is currently completing her doctoral degree in economics at the University of Bologna with a thesis focused on the effectiveness of active labour market policies. She holds an MSc in Economic History from the University of Oxford and was a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the University of Hamburg. She currently collaborates with the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL to investigate the long-term implications of technological transformation on occupation.
The growing use of robots in the current ICT revolution has sparked a serious debate about the potential threat robots pose to human labour. In parallel, the convergence towards a more sustainable economy has caused a transformation of firms and a consequent restructuring of employment. In this article we investigate the problem of technological unemployment and environmental rebound effect by looking at how relationships between jobless growth, industrial robots usage, CO2 emissions, and renewable energy consumption changed over time in China and South Korea. Findings from a competition model based on differential equations for the period 2008¿2018 show that robots do not always increase unemployment growth. On the other hand, the type of relationship between unemployment and sustainable use of energy changes over time, questioning the possibility of a smart green new deal.
Sobre la oradora:
Prof. Chiara Natalie Focacci is currently completing her doctoral degree in economics at the University of Bologna with a thesis focused on the effectiveness of active labour market policies. She holds an MSc in Economic History from the University of Oxford and was a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the University of Hamburg. She currently collaborates with the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL to investigate the long-term implications of technological transformation on occupation.