ILRLE 3460 - Future of Work

(crosslisted) ECON 3485
(SBA-AG)

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

M. Belot.

This course examines economic approaches to how new technologies impact the labour market. We will study how robots and digital technologies affect the nature of jobs and tasks, how technological developments affect the nature and flexibility of work contracts, as well as how firms and workers search and find each other. We will discuss the emergence of flexible work arrangements (gig economy, teleworking). The goal is to learn how economists approach and analyse these phenomena, both theoretically and empirically.