8 stories tagged labor-economics, newest first.
474 points by gnabgib | 495 comments
Apricitas Economics post analyzing the loss of over 200k US jobs in media, film, and the arts over four years and how much generative AI may be responsible.
68 points by ilamont | 172 comments
NBER working paper by David Deming and coauthors presenting large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings from a survey of over 9,000 workers.
327 points by littlexsparkee | 341 comments
NBER working paper by Kouchekinia, Neumark, and Bruckner examining whether employment slows cognitive decline using labor market shocks as evidence.
502 points by colinprince | 527 comments
Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.
490 points by pbui | 429 comments
Andy Jones blog post using the historical decline of horses after engine efficiency improvements as an analogy for how AI may suddenly displace human labor.
392 points by amichail | 362 comments
Ars Technica article on a study of 2023–2024 survey data finding that AI's time savings are offset by new tasks it creates for workers.
346 points by JSeymourATL | 445 comments
arXiv economics paper by Hunter Ng using Glassdoor data and an LLM-BERT technique to estimate that up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs never meant to be filled.
706 points by simula67 | 467 comments
Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.