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The sharing economy: Is technological change creating new labour markets? (Winter School Open Sessions)

When
Tuesday
Where
CEPS Conference room
Place du Congrès 1 - 1000 Brussels

Participation in this event is exceptionally free of charge.

CEPS Event

The sharing economy: Is technological change creating new labour markets? (Winter School Open Sessions)

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SESSION I. The special case of local transport: What policy-makers say

The objective of this session is to listen to the voices of policy-makers to better understand what challenges they face with respect to Uber, for example – the best-known case of the sharing economy, and what type of solutions they are devising. 

SESSION II. Work in the sharing economy

Innovations like Uber and AirB&B generate heated debate. These innovations, which some consider as ‘disruptive’, can be analysed from many different angles: who benefits from them? Who loses? Do they challenge our definitions of labour? Do they support or challenge the general trend towards inequality? In this session we would like to ask the pioneers of this new literature in the field of labour studies to share their views on the subject. We also welcome the views of policy-makers who find themselves addressing these issues with very little backup from the research community.

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Speakers list
Pascal Smet

Minister, Brussels Government

Christophe Heyndrickx

Researcher, Transport and Mobility Leuven

Miroslav Beblavý

Associate Senior Research Fellow, CEPS

Ilaria Maselli

Research Fellow, CEPS

Claire Ingram

Researcher and PhD Candidate, Stockholm School of Economics

Anna Felländer

Chief Economist, Swedbank

Koen Frenken

Professor in Innovation Studies, University of Utrecht

Alice Szczepanikova

Policy Analyst, JRC, European Commission