Social Protection and the Future of Work
IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: October 10, 2018
DAY: Wednesday
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
LOCATION: Bali International Convention Center (BICC), WE-2-Nusantara 1 & 2
Overview
Rapid technological change promises higher economic growth, but it also presents many challenges. As new jobs are created, others are lost, and the burden of adjustment can be heavy for some. At the same time, the benefits of growth might not be equally shared, with capital owners and the higher skilled benefiting more than others. Technological change, in combination with increased globalization of product and factor markets and liberalization of labor markets, often comes with increasing employment and income uncertainty throughout many peoples’ lives. Working lives will involve more frequent transitions across jobs and job statuses. Are today’s social protection systems up to the challenge? Do these developments require rethinking how society deals with increasing risk? What is the role of enhancing human capital to address inequality of opportunity? What is the role of redistributive taxes and transfers? Or is a bigger rethinking of public policy needed, rather than just doing the old things better?Join the conversation via #SocialProtection
Social Protection and the Future of Work
Panelists
Moderator: David Lipton
Panelist: Nicholas Barr
Panelist: Sharan Burrow
Panelist: Nora Lustig
Panelist: Michal Rutkowski
Michal Rutkowski is the Senior Director for Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank. He oversees the Bank’s work in developing systems that protect the poorest and vulnerable from crises and shocks. Until July 2016, he was the Director for Multilateral Organizations, and prior to that the Country Director for the Russian Federation and the Resident Representative in Moscow for three years. Mr. Rutkowski joined the World Bank in 1990. He was a country economist for the Russian Federation between 1995-1996, and after taking a brief leave from the Bank, returned as Sector Manager for social protection between 1998-2004, where he led a team of professionals working on pensions, labor market and social assistance reforms in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as in Turkey. Mr. Rutkowski’s published work covers issues on labor markets and social security. He was a core team member of the World Development Report “Workers in an Integrated World”- the World Bank’s annual flagship research publication - in 1995.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he helped design the Polish pension system while serving as the Director of the Office for Social Security Reform. He also taught at the Institute of Economic Policy at the Warsaw School of Economics.