In order to understand the employment effects of technological progress, it is useful to separate three types of technologies: 1) automation technologies, 2) technologies that create new tasks, and 3) capital- or labor-augmenting technologies. These different types of technological advances...

Euroopan maat eroavat työmarkkinakäytäntöjensä suhteen. Muutokset ovat olleet huomattavia 1980-luvun alusta lähtien. Iso-Britanniassa työntekijöiden järjestäytymisaste on laskenut merkittävästi ja yrityksillä on itsenäinen asema palkanasetannassa. Saksassa liittotason...

This report is an overview to the presentations and discussions in the seminar Survival or performance? Healthcare viewed through organization, information management, and personnel held on 3.9.2012. The seminar provided an interdisciplinary forum for the question how the health care system may...

Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...