Computers and employment

Computers and employment: The truth about e-skills

This paper addresses the particular question of the impact of this “new” digital environment on the labour market. It will investigate in particular how ICT has changed and is changing the labour market and the “old”, classical insights into the relationship between technology, employment and skills. We start in Section 2 with a review of the literature on technology and employment. In p reviou...

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does no...

Computers-Small computers: Past, present, and future.

In this presentation I will try to review some of the progress in the computing field over the last 10 or 12 years, especially in the minicomputer and small computer area-that is, desk-top and hand-held machines. Then, on the basis of this progress and what we already know about further developments in microelectronics, I would like to offer some predictions of things to come in the decade ahea...

Caregivers and Computers: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Employment and Labor Relations in Nursing Homes

Bacteria as computers making computers

Various efforts to integrate biological knowledge into networks of interactions have produced a lively microbial systems biology. Putting molecular biology and computer sciences in perspective, we review another trend in systems biology, in which recursivity and information replace the usual concepts of differential equations, feedback and feedforward loops and the like. Noting that the process...