The WZB is planning an international conference on matching markets. The conference "Designing and evaluating matching markets,” starting in the morning of June 27, 2019, and ending on June 28, 2019, will take place at the WZB in Berlin. The conference is organized by Inácio Bó (WZB), Dorothea Kübler (WZB), and Lars Ehlers (University of Montreal).
Organizers: Research Group Quantification and Social Regulation (Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society) and DVPW Thematic Group “Internet and Politics. Electronic Governance”
Date: 8-9 July 2019 (lunch-to-lunch)
International coordinated research project within the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union.
Recent technological innovations will potentially fundamentally change the size and nature of social inequalities. Success in labour markets and society will likely be driven by other skills than in the past, and traditional predictors of social mobility (e.g. class, educational credentials) are likely to be affected by these technological innovations. Most of the literature addresses the question of whether automation will create or destruct jobs. This project pushes the research frontiers beyond by focussing on the broader societal impact of technological developments.