Introduction to the Pissarides Review
Read the introductory report for the Review, and reports from our ‘reframing’ series on automation and skills.
Introducing the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing
This report marks the launch of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing, a collaboration between the Institute for the Future of Work, Imperial College London and Warwick Business School.
The Pissarides Review is a three-year programme of work, informed and supported by an expert Steering Group and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Explainers
Reframing Skills: Sen’s Capability Approach in an age of automation
With automation and AI we are living through the greatest technological transition since industrialisation, precipitating major transformations of the nature of work that have profound implications for education and skills.
In the first of our ‘Explainers’, we outline why a novel application of Sen’s Capability Approach offers a new perspective, providing a comprehensive, organising framework to promote human flourishing centred on individual agency.
Reframing Automation: a new model for anticipating risks and impacts
To craft a fairer future of better work through this transition we need to understand the different impacts that automation can have, and how these impacts structure different types of risk, in different circumstances, for different groups.
In this paper, Dr Abigail Gilbert - Director of Praxis at IFOW - examines the current 'job replacement' narrative on automation, and identifies a wider range of intervention points to steer innovation towards beneficial social outcomes, such as a fairer future through better work.