Speaker: Jean-Pierre Landau, Dean, School of Public Affairs, Sciences Po
Time: 15:00-16:30, May 18th, 2015
Venue: Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Language: English
Bio:
Jean-Pierre Landau is the Dean of the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po.
For most of his career he has worked in the French Government and Central Bank. He has been Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (Washington DC), Undersecretary for External Economic Relations, and Executive Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
From 2006 to 2011 he was Deputy Governor of the Banque de France.
He has been Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School) and Visiting professor at SAIS (John Hopkins - Washington DC).
Abstract:
The debate on inequality has focused on the widening distribution gap in incomes and wealth and the decrease in labor share of income in all major economies. However, a main challenge for the next decades will be the transformation brought by technological change in the nature of work. Those transformations will likely result both in increased opportunities and higher economic insecurity, including for highly qualified professionals. By itself, future technological progress may be highly biased towards a very limited field of qualifications, leading to a “winner take all” economy. Those new sources of inequality will pose different challenges to public policies, which existing redistribution mechanisms might not be well equipped to confront.
