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This podcast series is part of Bruegel's Future of work and inclusive growth Project. To read more about the project and research output, click here.
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Skills anticipation for the green transition
How do we build a workforce that has the skills needed for the future and how do we ensure the process works for everybody?
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The role of civil society in skills development
How can civil society help close the skills gap?
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Can/Should robots look after the young and the old?
Exploring the potential, ethics and the willingness of people to automatise unpaid domestic work.
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Skills podcast series
Special podcast series celebrating European year of skills
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Skills-based hiring: tackling the labour shortages
What is skills-based hiring and how can it improve labour or skill shortages?
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Why do employers want employees back in the office?
Leaders maintain a belief that employee collaboration is negatively impacted by remote work, but the evidence to support this assumption is mixed.
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Skills-shift: navigating the future of work
How can we equip people with the skills they need to adapt to a rapidly changing labour market?
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Why are remote jobs only happening in the cities?
How flexible are remote jobs?
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The dominance of the platform economy
How are digital platforms overtaking the state and how can we regain control?
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Lessons from the rise in self-employment
What does the future look like for the self-employed and what does it mean for traditional workers?
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Artificial intelligence and job quality
A timely discussion about the role AI plays in job quality
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Job quality is about more than working conditions
What is job quality and why does it matter?
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Online labour: Can we all just move to Tahiti?
How is online labour different from remote work?
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Make AI boring again
How can AI education improve workers' experience?
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Technology: a product of unequal power?
The effects of digital technology on work and wages.
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Is tech redefining the workplace for women?
Exploring the relationship between artificial intelligence and job transformation and whether the impact differs by gender.