Digitized Labor

Lorenzo Pupillo is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, Belgium, and Affiliated Researcher at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, USA.Eli Noam is Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information; Professor of Finance & Economics; and Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, USA.Leonard Waverman is Dean of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. ICT Investments and Labor Demand in OECD Countries.- 3. A One Sector Model of Robotic Immiserization.- 4. Routinization and the Labor Market: Evidence from European Countries.- 5. Labor Markets in the Digital Economy: Modeling Employment from the Bottom-Up.- 6. The Impact of the Broadband Internet on Employment.- 7. The Impact of the Internet on Employment and Income in the US Media and Entertainment Business.- 8. Inequality and the Digital Economy.- 9. Job Losses and the Middle Class: Canada and the USA, and the Possible Role of ICT.- 10. Internet Innovations–Software Is Eating the World: Software-Defined Ecosystems and the Related Innovations Result in a Programmable Enterprise.- 11. ICT Innovation, Productivity, and Labor Market Adjustment Policy.- 12. Ensuring the Education and Skills Needed for ICT Employment and Economic Growth.- 13. Smart Organizations, New Skills, and Smart Working to Manage Companies’ Digital Transformation.- 14. Investigating the Potential for Micro-work and Online-freelancing in Sri Lanka.- 15. Do Municipal Broadband Networks Stimulate or Crowd out Private Investment? An Empirical Analysis of Employment Effects.