Can/Should robots look after the young and the old?

The future of work has become a prominent topic for research and
policy debate. However, the debate has focused entirely on paid
work, even though people in industrialised countries spend on
average comparable amounts of time on unpaid work. This ranges
from simple daily chores like sweeping the floor and cooking, to
more complicated and controversial issues like robots looking
after kids or the elderly.
 
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro sits
down with Ekaterina Hertog and Fabian Stephany to investigate the
road less travelled, Ekaterina’s research on the potential and
the willingness of people to automatise unpaid domestic work.
Around this topic, they discuss the aspect of work/life balance,
the gender aspect, the question of services oriented towards the
domestic work market and more.

This was produced within the project "Future of Work and
Inclusive Growth in Europe" with the financial support of the
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.