The Future of Work
The labor market is undergoing profound changes, raising multiple policy challenges. There is a need to stimulate labor mobility while protecting workers; increase productivity and employment levels while containing income inequality; accommodate globalization and technological change while ensuring equal opportunities for everyone.
How can the world’s economies anticipate and thrive amid such challenges?
To address these questions, Georgetown University and the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management invited globally recognized experts in matters of employment and social policy:
David Autor, Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics : New Frontiers: The Evolving Content, Wages, and Geography of New Work in the 20th century.
Richard Blundell, David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the University College London and Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies : Inequality, Redistribution and the Labour Market.
David Hémous, University of Zurich, Associate Professor of Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship : Automating labor: Evidence from firm-level panel data.
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“Congratulations to Claudio Costanzo, winner of the 2026 Kuznets Prize!”
Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize for his FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) article Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing, which was published in the Journal of Population Economics (2025), 38, article 51. The annual prize honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics in the previous year.
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion — Laureate of the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
ECARES warmly congratulates Philippe Aghion on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt. Since the founding of ECARES in 1991, Philippe Aghion has maintained a close and fruitful relationship with our center through numerous academic interactions and collaborations that have deeply enriched our research community. We …
BELSPO BRAIN HAIOPOLICY Midterm Conference September 10th
HAIOPOLICY aims to (i) study the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on households and firms, (ii) document its implications for inequality in Belgium, and (iii) develop policy recommendations to make the Belgian economy more resilient in response to adverse shocks. To do so, the project: Now nearing the end of the second year of the project, …
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