Barbara van Schewick
Colleges / Universities: Stanford University
Researchers today are trying to understand how information technology affects innovation, productivity, and economic growth while studying the impact of political and legal ground rules. Academics featured here are looking at the potential to create jobs and keep policymakers aware of emerging trends in technology.
Colleges / Universities: Stanford University
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Colleges / Universities: University of California, Berkeley
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Bloom, N. (2022, September 6). Time. https://time.com/charter/6211250/hybrid-work-nicholas-bloom/“But the biggest challenge—and maybe the one unexpected bit—is how much employees have got comfortable with choice of days in the office and like to flip that around each week, for whatever reason, childcare reasons, work, personal reasons, etc. ”
William Eberle Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Bloom, N. (2022, September 4). CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-return-office-wfh-fall-pandemic-1.6570575“Canada has, like the U.S., a highly developed economy with a high number of professional jobs that can [be] done remotely, a highly educated workforce and many people living a long commute from work.”
William Eberle Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Peri, G. (2022, September 1). Inquirer. https://usa.inquirer.net/109633/loss-of-1-7-million-immigrants-fuels-u-s-labor-shortages-inflation-2“From the middle of 2019 until the end of 2021, there has been essentially zero net immigration to the U.S. Although in late 2021 and early 2022 these numbers started growing again, the fact that the inflow of immigrants stopped made the country lose more than 1.7 million (immigrants).”
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
Bloom, N. (2022, August 29). Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/workers-face-pressure-top-companies-push-post-labor-day-return-office-1737064“Longer-run WFH will grow as the technology supporting this continues to improve, with innovations around virtual reality, holograms, video and sound, and cloud.”
William Eberle Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Bessen, J. (2022, July 21). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/business/software-james-bessen-book.html“There is an advantage to software that economists haven’t really reckoned with yet. Software isn’t accelerating creative destruction today. Software is suppressing it.”
Director and Founder, Research on Innovation
Executive Director, Technology & Policy Research Initiative
Lecturer in Law
School of Law
Boston University