Legal and ethical issues in AI and robots
This presentation on legal and ethical issues in AI and robots by Aída Ponce, is the seventh session of the 2022-2023 DigClass seminar series.
Publications and Events
Assessing the Validity of Four-day Week Pilots
The four-day workweek has gained global attention and popularity, with supporters arguing it can improve several conditions, such as productivity, job creation, and the environment. Small-scale pilot programmes are being …
The Myth of the Middle Class Squeeze: Employment and Income by Class in Six Western Countries, 1980-2020
The public debate regularly depicts the middle class as the victim of employment polarization and income stagnation. This narrative of a squeezed middle class suggests that people both above and below fared better in terms …
Educational gradients in the prevalence of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) births in a comparative perspective
A handful of studies from individual countries have shown that parents of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR)-conceived children are more likely to have, relative to parents of naturally conceived (NC) children, higher …
Technological change and (un)employment
This presentation on technological change and (un)employment, presented by Giorgio Presidente, is the sixth session of the 2022-2023 DigClass seminar series.
Real Utopias for a Social Europe: Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week
Real Utopias for a Social Europe consists of technical debate-type workshops on various bold and innovative social policy proposals…
Technological change and new work
This presentation on technological change and new work, presented by Anna Salomons, is the fifth session of the 2022-2023 DigClass seminar series.
Health inequities
This presentation on health inequities, presented by Michael Marmot, is the fourth session of the 2022-2023 DigClass seminar series.
Socioeconomic differences in access to and use of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in a context of increasing childlessness
The WHO estimates that around 186 million individuals live with infertility. Although the drivers of infertility are varied and complex, it is linked to the postponement of childbearing in Western countries, and unsafe abortions …
Income inequality, top shares of income and social classes in the 21st century
This paper studies income distribution and inequality in Germany, Spain and Italy by applying the approach described in Fana and Villani (2022a). This framework provides a novel classification of labourers and capitalists that …