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Webinar by ADB on COVID-19, Technology, and Polarizing Jobs
COVID-19 is driving economies into recession, putting many jobs at risk. Up to 242 million full-time jobs could be lost globally, with 70% of these in Asia and the Pacific. Informal employees in vulnerable sectors will be hard hit and many middle-skilled workers face being ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2020/adb-webinar-on-covid-19-technology-and-polarizing-jobs
Problem solving and human skills increasingly valuable in China and beyond, suggests Park
The future of work in China and globally will increasingly value the ability of highly skilled workers to solve problems and supervise and interact with others, as Albert Park, Director of the Institute, has found from his research program to analyse data on jobs in China. He believed that globalization and structural ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2019/park-future-work-china-word-sbm-scmp
Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Seminar Video (Hosted on YouTube) The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work has been a key feature of labour markets in recent decades. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of particular tasks differs between workers performing seemingly ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2019/piotr-technology-skills-and-globalization
Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop worker-level, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/lewandowski-park-hardy-yang-technology-skills-globalization-routine-survey-wp60
The Changing Nature of Work -- Launch of the World Development Report 2019
Download the World Development Report in Chinese here.  Download the World Development Report in English here.   Live Broadcast Event Summary In October 2018, HKUST IEMS hosted the launch of the 2019 World Development Report (WDR) titled “The Changing Nature of Work” at HKUST Business ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2018/launch-of-the-world-development-report-2019
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