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This paper examines labor market polarization through a comparative analysis of skill-based employment and wage distributions in India and the United States during 2018-2023, with particular attention to differential automation risks and AI…

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform work, but less is known about how firms reorganize labor demand as the technology diffuses. Existing research has largely focused on which occupations are exposed to AI or…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-25 Fangyan Wang , Zaiyan Wei , Yang Wang

This paper examines whether artificial intelligence (AI) acts as a substitute or complement to human labour, drawing on 12 million online job vacancies from the United States spanning 2018-2023. We adopt a two-pronged approach: first,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-02-27 Elina Mäkelä , Fabian Stephany

The adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to lead to fundamental shifts in the labour market, resulting in displacement or augmentation of AI-exposed roles. To investigate the impact of AI across a large…

Although wage inequality has evolved in advanced countries over recent decades, it remains unknown the extent to which changes in wage inequality and their differences across countries are attributable to specific capital and labor…

General Economics · Economics 2022-06-13 Hiroya Taniguchi , Ken Yamada

Skill shortages are a drain on society. They hamper economic opportunities for individuals, slow growth for firms, and impede labor productivity in aggregate. Therefore, the ability to understand and predict skill shortages in advance is…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-05 Nik Dawson , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Benjamin Johnston , Mary-Anne Williams

The recent wave of AI and automation has been argued to differ from previous General Purpose Technologies (GPTs), in that it may lead to rapid change in occupations' underlying task requirements and persistent technological unemployment. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Subhro Das , Sebastian Steffen , Wyatt Clarke , Prabhat Reddy , Erik Brynjolfsson , Martin Fleming

How many workers displaced by automation can realistically transition to safer jobs? We answer this using a validated knowledge graph of 9,978 Egyptian job postings, 19,766 skill activities, and 84,346 job-skill relationships (0.74% error…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ahmed Dawoud , Sondos Samir , Youssef Nasr , Ahmed Habashy , Aya Saleh , Mahmoud Mohamed , Osama El-Shamy

Rapid technological innovation threatens to leave much of the global workforce behind. Today's economy juxtaposes white-hot demand for skilled labor against stagnant employment prospects for workers unprepared to participate in a digital…

This paper investigates how generative-artificial intelligence AI is reshaping job requirements, skill compositions and sectoral dynamics across global labor markets. It examines the evolving frequency and framing of AI-related competencies…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Diana Maria Popa , Simona-Vasilica Oprea , Adela Bâra

Labour demand and skill shortages have historically been difficult to assess given the high costs of conducting representative surveys and the inherent delays of these indicators. This is particularly consequential for fast developing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Nik Dawson , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Benjamin Johnston , Mary-Anne Williams

We present a large-scale analysis of career mobility of college-educated U.S. workers using online resume profiles to investigate how gender, race, and job change options are associated with upward mobility. This study addresses key…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Palakorn Achananuparp , Ye Xu , Yao Lu , Xavier Jayaraj Siddarth Ashok , Ee-Peng Lim

Does technological change destroy or create jobs? New technologies may replace human workers, but can simultaneously create jobs if workers are needed to use these technologies or if new economic activities emerge. Furthermore,…

General Economics · Economics 2022-04-05 Kerstin Hötte , Melline Somers , Angelos Theodorakopoulos

Recent waves of technological transformation are reshaping work in uncertain and hard-to-predict ways. However, jobs at the forefront of the digitizing economy offer an early glimpse of these changes and leave rich activity traces. We…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-10 Xiangnan Feng , Johannes Wachs , Simone Daniotti , Frank Neffke

Context: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. Objective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the description…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the labor market by changing the task content of occupations. This study investigates the impact of AI development on the emergence of new work, employment, and wages in the United States from 2015…

General Economics · Economics 2025-03-26 David Marguerit

Technological change is responsible for major changes in the labor market. One of the offspring of technological change is the SBTC, which is for many economists the leading cause of the increasing wage inequality. However, despite that the…

General Economics · Economics 2020-01-27 Virginia Tsoukatou

The emerging widespread usage of AI has led to industry adoption to improve efficiency and increase earnings. However, a major consequence of this is AI displacing employees from their jobs, leading to feelings of job insecurity and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Daniyaal Farooqi , Gavin Pu , Shreyasha Paudel , Sharifa Sultana , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Generative AI is altering work processes, task composition, and organizational design, yet its effects on employment and the macroeconomy remain unresolved. In this review, we synthesize theory and empirical evidence at three levels. First,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-09-22 R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Ekkehard Ernst , Rossana Merola , Daniel Samaan , Ole Teutloff

There is significant concern that technological advances, especially in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), could lead to high levels of unemployment in the coming decades. Studies have estimated that around half of all current jobs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Toby Walsh