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Call for Proposals: The Labor Economics of Frontier AI
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Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization
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Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand
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March 2024
New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018
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Feb 25, 2025
MIT Technology Review: A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelligence
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Feb 24, 2025
No need to run from the robots: Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu talks to MoneyWeek
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Feb 3, 2025
WSJ: Manufacturing Towns Hit by the ‘China Shock’ Bounced Back. The Workers Didn’t.
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