On June 3 and 4 2004 MERIT will organize a workshop on the topic “Information Technology and New Industry and Labour Market Dynamics”.

The aim of the workshop is twofold. First, to develop a perspective on the changing way in which goods are being produced, production processes are being organised and jobs are being occupied as a result of the adoption of IT. Second, to investigate the consequences of IT diffusion and the determinants of adoption empirically at the firm level, its impact in the labour market both from a theoretical and empirical point of view and its macroeconomic consequences.

This workshop has been supported by grants from:

NWO: Netherlands organization for scientific research
Priority research programme – “Society and the Electronic Highway”

METEOR: Maastricht research school of economics of technology and organizations