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`Ongoing technological development brings the promise of higher productivity, increased efficiencies, and convenience, but the new technologies also raise difficult questions according to Bent Greve in this ground-breaking book concerning the impact of automation on jobs, skills, wages and inequality. Are welfare states prepared and how can they cope if there are fewer earners? Greve is the acknowledged expert on such questions. Social scientists interested in labour markets and welfare state transformations will enthusiastically welcome this book.' -- Christopher Deeming, Journal of Social Policy and University of Strathclyde, UK

'The author presents and discusses the latest changes in employment generated by the international platform, from Uber to Amazon and Coworking, and presents some new social consequences of the sharing economy.' -- Irena Lipowicz, European Journal of Social Security 'Ongoing technological development brings the promise of higher productivity, increased efficiencies, and convenience, but the new technologies also raise difficult questions according to Bent Greve in this ground-breaking book concerning the impact of automation on jobs, skills, wages and inequality. Are welfare states prepared and how can they cope if there are fewer earners? Greve is the acknowledged expert on such questions. Social scientists interested in labour markets and welfare state transformations will enthusiastically welcome this book.' -- Christopher Deeming, Journal of Social Policy and University of Strathclyde, UK

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Bent Greve, Professor in Social Science, Department of Social Sciences and Business, University of Roskilde, Denmark

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