EF8: Digital Labor Markets and Information Systems with Sonny Tambe

Show notes: ide.mit.edu/news-events-media?type_1=podcast In this podcast we discuss how data from labor platforms like LinkedIn allows us to understand the economy in new ways and how labor and technology intersect more broadly. Our guest is Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe of NYU's Stern School of Business. Sonny's specialty is in using new data to study how workers and technologies spread across firms. We start this conversation by discussing the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), the conference we were both attending. Next, we move on to a discussion the advantages of platform data over administrative and survey data in labor economics. We then discuss several of Sonny's papers. These include a paper on the importance of geography for collaboration in open source and the factors affecting agglomeration economies in the technology sector. We then discuss worker training, coding bootcamps, and information systems degrees at business schools. Lastly, Sonny speculates on the unanswered questions in the field and on the potential effects of AI.

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EF8: Digital Labor Markets and Information Systems with Sonny Tambe is an episode from Economic Frontiers by MIT_IDE.

This episode is 00:26:39 long.

This episode was published on Jan 9, 2017.

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