We would like to invite you to the upcoming public lecture organised by the Institute for Higher Education Management.
Title: This Time is Different? AI’s impact on Graduates’ Labour Market and its implications for Higher Education
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 4pm CET
Speaker: Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto
Location: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Higher Education
Management, Building D5, 6th Floor, Room D5.6.029 (http://campus.wu.ac.at/)
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Abstract:
In recent years we have seen a surge of interest about the potential impacts of AI in the labour market, especially given the striking developments in generative AI that have challenged dominant perceptions about how much this will affect graduates position in the labour market. This debate has been framed by past experiences with automation and technological progress that tended to favour those with more education, qualifications, and experience. However, recent preliminary analyses suggest that this time may be different and that AI’s impact in the labour market for graduates (both recent and more experienced) may not be negligible. This will pose major challenges to higher education. In this session we will analyse existing evidence about the impact of AI in graduates’ labour market and reflect about the challenges and opportunities faced by higher education if those expectations materialize.
About the speaker
Pedro Nuno Teixeira is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and a former Director of CIPES – Centre of Research in Higher Education Policies (2009-2022). His areas of specialization are the economics of education and the history of economic thought.
He has published in a broad range of scientific journals in his areas of interest and has authored or edited several volumes for Oxford UP, Springer, Kluwer, Palgrave, Routledge, Edward Elgar, Brill, and Sense. He is the editor of Human Capital: Critical Concepts in Economics, 4 vols. (Routledge, 2014) and Editor-in-Chief of The International Encyclopaedia of Higher Education, 3 vols. (Springer, 2020). He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Higher Education, the European Journal of Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, and the Journal of Research in Higher Education. He was a member of the Board of Governors (2007-2022) and Secretary General (2013-2022) of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER). Since 2003 he has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and since 2005 a Fellow of the Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE). He has also served on the evaluation panels for the European University Association (EUA) and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). He has been a national expert for DG Education and a member of the EU Network of Experts on the Economics of Education. He is a member of Academia Europaea since 2021.
He has served as a special adviser to the President of Portugal on Higher Education and Science (2016-2021) and on Higher Education and Economic Affairs (2021-2022). He was Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at U.Porto (2014-2018) and a member of Portugal’s National Council of Education (2014-2018). Between March 2022 and April 2024, he was the Secretary of State for Higher Education in the Portuguese Government.
