Technology, Globalisation and Migration

Interconnected Challenges for Inequality and Skills

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This timely book examines three impactful changes to the labour market in recent decades: the rapid automation of production processes, surging international trade, and greater cross-border mobility and migration of workers. Expert authors assess how workers have benefited and suffered from these shifts and provide policymakers with recommendations on how to reduce inequality while securing economic benefits.Contributors analyse individual transformations and their interaction with the broader sociopolitical landscape, incorporating both macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives. They use an interdisciplinary approach to explore the consequences of technological advancements on labour markets, such as automation, digital platforms and artificial intelligence. Chapters also address rising inequality and the divide between skilled and unskilled labour, and the uneven impacts of globalisation that prevent the diversification of economies. Ultimately, the book outlines the need for innovation and a restructuring of systems to ensure a resilient future where talent and skills are not squandered, and potential challenges can be successfully overcome.Technology, Globalisation and Migration is a vital read for scholars and students of economics and finance, innovation and technology, development studies, and sociology. Policymakers and practitioners working in labour market regulation will also benefit from its practical and theoretical insights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-09
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035373642

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Edited by Steven Dhondt, Professor, Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), Belgium; Senior Research Scientist, TNO, the Netherlands, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage, Associate Professor, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands and Leire Aldaz Odriozola, Associate Professor, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain

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‘This book presents valuable new evidence on crucial developments impacting European labour markets, including technological progress, globalisation, and migration. I found its interdisciplinary approach, its careful consideration of social consequences, its nuanced analysis and discussion of migration, and the application of its scientific insights to policy particularly insightful.’

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of contributors viiPreface xiPART I INTRODUCTION1 Inequality and skills: still the main social topics of our times 2Steven Dhondt, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage and Leire Aldaz OdriozolaPART II THREE TRANSFORMATIONS RESHAPING WORKAND INEQUALITY2 The consequences of technological advancements for labourmarkets 14Victor Medina Pierluisi and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage3 Globalisation and labour market inequalities 37Bart Los4 Migration, inequality, and skills 53Leire Aldaz Odriozola, Majda Seghir, Begoña Eguía Peñaand Ane Aizpurua Esnaola5 The interaction of the three shocks: technological change,globalisation, and migration 69Marcel SmolkaPART III POLICY RESPONSES: REIMAGINING THE RULESOF THE GAME6 Regions in Europe: diverse paths to shared prosperity? 98Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen, Jon P. Knudsen, TereseBirkeland and Tore Bersvendsen7 Social convergence and the transitions: which direction? 117Gerben Hulsegge, Steven Dhondt, Hans Christian GarmannJohnsen, Pascal Kampert and Jon P. Knudsen8 Skills between reality and misconceptions: what they can (andcannot) solve 142Cinzia Alcidi and Laura NurskiPART IV RETHINKING POLICY FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE9 Reimagining European policy: skills, inequality, and the pathto convergence 157Steven Dhondt, Leire Aldaz Odriozola and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage