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Subject: Duly Noted: The Future of Work

Over the last 50 years, globalization, aging populations, and technological innovation have redefined labor. Can advanced countries adapt to increasing competition with lower-paid, less protected workers in developing countries, or will they face chronic unemployment? What will happen when developing-country workers demand better conditions and higher pay, as they have begun to do in China? In a new Focal Point, Project Syndicate contributors consider the future of work. Commentaries include:

Kenneth Rogoff on why technology won't kill jobs

J. Bradford DeLong on structural weakness is developed countries' employment markets

Robert Skidelsky on the effects of inequality on labor practices

Fan Gang on the future of low-wage China