Living with Technology’s Impact on Jobs
March 29, 2015
A policy analyst recently argued in Issues that economics provides a compelling model of how labor markets adjust to technological change, though often with painful, if temporary, consequences. In the Atlantic, an economist and former software company CEO reaffirms this thinking, proposing that technology will primarily shift workers into new jobs demanding new skills, and that the country must adjust by adopting broad-based policies that will help workers gain the tools needed to prosper.