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 is likely to interact with the ecological transformation towards a climate-friendly economy, both of which will shape the future of work. On top of that, the Covid-19 pandemic induced fast changes in the organisation and location 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 processes associated with 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?
- What is the role of education and training in preparing the workforce for new knowledge and skills requirements?
- How does the Covid-19 pandemic affect both types of transformations? And what does the pandemic reveal about the interactions 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?

