IER News & blogs

On 15 April Gianni Anelli Lopez, PhD student at IER, delivered a one-day course on automation, AI and the labour market at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford.

He presented major studies on automation, the use of online data to measure skills in online advertisements and discussed public policy recommendations.

A recently published book chapter (in German) by IER's Dr Katharina Sarter explores the role of public procurement as a policy tool for promoting gender equality. Book details are available via the publisher's website.

Together with Dr Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey from the University of York, IER's Dr Katharina Sarter published a blog contribution that examines the changing environment that public services face and the approaches public services take to adapt to a changing environment.

In collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Dr Sally Wright co-authored a report on platformisation of work in Europe.

The report provides a first approximation to the emerging phenomenon of platformisation of work, with an empirical analysis of data from the new JRC Algorithmic Management and Platform Work survey (AMPWork) in Spain and Germany.

The European Commission recently established a new unit to promote Industry 5.0.

IER Director, Chris Warhurst, along with his TNO colleague Prof. Steven Dhondt has just published a policy brief from the Beyond 4.0 research project that examines why Industry 5.0 is needed as an industrial strategy in Europe and how it can be made to happen.