Technology and the Future of European Employment

Edited by Pascal Petit, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris Nord, France and Luc Soete, Joint Director, United Nations University-Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), and Professor of International Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

What is the potential of the new information and communication technologies? This book assesses the relationship between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe.

The authors discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of these new technologies.