Will the COVID-19 pandemic accelerate or slow global job displacement?

Author: Terry McKinley
Thematic Area: Technological Innovation ,Inclusive Growth ,Social Protection

Abstract:This One Pager focuses on the likely global job repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic within the context of already expanding digitalisation, as well as automation and robotics, focusing on the implications of a recent thought-provoking report by the McKinsey Global Institute: "The Future of Work after COVID-19".

Keywords:COVID-19; fourth industrial revolution; automation; job losses
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Type/Issue:One Pager/473
ISSN:2318-9118
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