Abstract

Digital technologies can be both labour-saving and labour-augmenting, thereby changing the division of labour between humans and machines. While an increasing range of tasks can be automated, new tasks arise at the same time. This digital transformation likely interacts with the ecological transformation to a climate-friendly economy, both of which will shape the future of work. On top of that, the Covid-19 pandemic induced fast changes to common forms and locations of work. The aim of this conference is to bring together economists, sociologists and researchers from related fields to discuss frontier research on labour market effects of the digital and ecological transformation. Special focus lies on the following questions:How does the division of tasks between workers and machines develop?Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital?How does the digital and ecological transformation affect labour market, firm and individual outcomes?How do job contents and tasks evolve and how do workers adapt?How does the Covid-19 pandemic affect both types of transformations? And what does the pandemic reveal about the relations between gender, education, work requirements and tasks?How can policy cushion potential negative outcomes related to these transformations?How do we measure the digital and ecological transformation and categorise related tasks?What can we learn from new (big) data sources like job advertisements?