Author: Jeff Rosenthal
The NC State Institute for Emerging Issues’ annual conference will be held early next week. This year’s theme is Future Work, and the key question that the forum poses is: “Is technology and demography shift, how can North Carolina prepare today to create enough good jobs for tomorrow?”
Longtime readers of The LEAD Feed will understand our excitement about this forum, as it touches upon a lot of what we consider in our research. Previous LEAD Feed articles that touch directly on these issues include:
- Our work describing where the jobs are: Supply and Demand for Occupations, which was listed as a resource for the conference.
- Our work on bifurcation of jobs showed a decline in routine jobs, a likely result of ongoing automation.
- A summary of whether automation will eliminate jobs.
- Our research on technology and the digital divide in North Carolina.
- Our work on determining workers’ level of education and STEM Jobs and Science and Engineering Majors.
The IEI website has a lot of very interesting materials including two worthy of note:
- Our own Secretary Skvarla gave a very informative interview with Anita Brown-Graham, Executive Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues in advance of this forum that discusses some of the issues that will face North Carolina workers in particular.
- A disruption index based on work by NC State Economist Michael Walden that tries to assess which jobs are most vulnerable, and how many jobs may be lost to technology in the future.
We look forward to attending this conference, reporting some of the findings from the conference, and developing research to help those helping North Carolina prepare to create the good jobs for tomorrow make data-driven decisions.