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Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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Kondratieff, Schumpeter, and Mandel each highlight different drivers of capitalist long waves: Kondratieff emphasizes regular technological-driven renewal, Schumpeter emphasizes entrepreneurship and innovation-led creative destruction, and Mandel emphasizes class relations and production structures.
Comparative theoretical analysis and literature synthesis across the three schools; conceptual summary of canonical positions (no original dataset; qualitative interpretation).
high mixed Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... theoretical drivers of capitalist cycles
The United States' decentralized education system produces tensions between local innovation and federal accountability, with active debates over data and privacy laws shaping responses to AI in assessment.
Case study of U.S. policy and secondary literature documenting federal-state-local governance dynamics and ongoing legal/policy debates; descriptive evidence from public documents.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... policy tension between innovation and accountability; data/privacy regulation ac...
China's centralized control enables rapid piloting of AI-supported assessment but raises concerns over surveillance and data governance.
Country case study using Chinese policy texts and secondary analyses describing centralized education governance and data-governance practices; illustrative rather than empirical.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... speed of piloting AI assessment and surveillance/data-governance risk
India faces pressure to maintain high-stakes exams amid uneven digital access and is experimenting with blended formative tools.
Country-specific case study based on policy documents and secondary literature describing India's exam system and early technology initiatives; no primary survey/sample size.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... policy stance on high-stakes exams and digital access disparities
Four national case studies (India, China, the United States, Canada) illustrate diverse national responses to AI in assessment shaped by governance structures, resource constraints, cultural attitudes, and political pressures.
Cross-national comparative analysis using publicly available policy texts, recent reforms, and secondary literature for each country; descriptive, illustrative cases rather than exhaustive or representative samples.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... national policy responses and governance approaches
The benefits of FDI (jobs, productivity, skills) are uneven and often conditional on institutional quality, labor regulation, and sectoral composition of investments.
Mechanism mapping and thematic synthesis linking heterogeneous empirical findings to contextual moderators (governance, regulation, sector); review emphasizes consistent role of these moderators across studies.
high mixed Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... spillovers (productivity, employment quality, wage gains), distributional outcom...
FDI’s effects on employment, wages, and income distribution in Sub‑Saharan Africa are mixed and highly context‑dependent.
Conceptual literature review synthesizing theoretical frameworks and empirical findings across micro, firm, sectoral, and macro studies; no new primary data. Review notes heterogeneous identification strategies and results across studies and contexts.
high mixed Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... employment levels, wages, income distribution
Data‑driven policies can either amplify or mitigate inequalities depending on data representativeness, model design, and deployment governance.
Multiple empirical examples and theoretical analyses in the review highlighting cases of both harm (bias amplification) and mitigation, identified across the 103 items.
high mixed Models, applications, and limitations of the responsible ado... distributional equity outcomes (inequality amplification or mitigation)
Citizen acceptance, transparency, and perceived fairness strongly shape adoption trajectories and the political feasibility of AI tools in government.
Repeated empirical findings in the reviewed literature linking public trust, transparency measures, and fairness perceptions to successful or failed deployments (drawn from multiple case studies in the 103 items).
high mixed Models, applications, and limitations of the responsible ado... adoption trajectory/political feasibility of government AI tools (measured via d...
Adoption of AI and data-driven governance is highly uneven across jurisdictions and sectors, driven by institutional capacity, governance frameworks, and public trust.
Cross‑regional and cross‑sector comparisons in the review corpus (103 items) showing varying maturity levels and repeated identification of institutional capacity, governance arrangements, and trust factors as determinants.
high mixed Models, applications, and limitations of the responsible ado... adoption level/maturity of AI-driven governance systems
Governance approaches are emerging at global, regional and national levels; they vary widely across sectors and jurisdictions, creating opportunities for regulatory experimentation but also risks of fragmentation and regulatory arbitrage.
Cross-jurisdictional comparison of existing/global/regional/national governance instruments and sectoral guidance; gap analysis highlighting heterogeneity.
high mixed AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... degree of regulatory heterogeneity, instances of fragmentation/regulatory arbitr...
Technology effectiveness depends on institutional support (extension, property rights), finance, and local knowledge — technologies are not a silver bullet alone.
Conceptual frameworks and comparative analysis in the review; supporting case studies and program evaluations linking adoption and impact to institutional factors (extension reach, tenure security, access to credit).
high mixed MODERN APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION technology adoption rates, realized productivity gains, distribution of benefits...
Real‑time and LLM‑based methods improve responsiveness but raise governance, transparency, and reproducibility challenges that BLS must manage (audit trails, uncertainty communication).
Operational tradeoff discussion in the paper identifying governance risks; no case studies or incident analyses provided.
high mixed Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... tradeoff between responsiveness (timeliness/accuracy) and governance metrics (tr...
Distinguishing automation versus augmentation using causal methods changes policy responses (e.g., income support versus reskilling).
Policy implication drawn from conceptual separation of substitution and complementarity effects; logical inference rather than empirical demonstration in the paper.
high mixed Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... policy prescriptions chosen contingent on causal classification (automation vs a...
Evaluation of the equivalency system should use metrics such as concordance between claimed competencies and verified inputs, predictive validity versus labor-market integration outcomes, and false positive/negative rates in automated decisions.
Methodological recommendation in the paper outlining specific evaluation metrics; this is a prescriptive claim (no empirical implementation reported).
high mixed Establishes a technical and academic bridge between the educ... concordance rate, predictive validity (e.g., accuracy, AUC), false positive/nega...
Overall, the protocol reframes AI governance in finance as a rights‑centered institutional design problem with direct economic consequences for market structure, credit allocation, compliance costs, and incentives shaping AI model development.
High-level synthesis claim made by the author, supported by the corpus audit (~4,200 texts), 12 years of legal research, doctrinal/comparative analysis, and the economics implications section.
high mixed Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research measurable economic consequences across market structure (concentration), credit...
There is no consensus in the literature on net job effects — studies diverge on whether AI produces net job gains.
Direct finding from the review: the 17 peer‑reviewed studies produce heterogeneous results on net employment impacts (some positive, some negative, some neutral).
Effects of AI adoption are heterogeneous across industries, firm sizes, regions, and worker characteristics (education, experience, occupation).
Microdata and firm-level studies exploiting cross-sectional and panel variation, quasi-experimental designs leveraging differential adoption across firms/regions, and comparative institutional analyses showing variation by context.
high mixed Intelligence and Labor Market Transformation: A Critical Ana... heterogeneity in employment and wage outcomes by industry, firm size, region, an...
The effects of K_T adoption are heterogeneous across industries, firms, countries, and cohorts — early adopters and capital-rich firms/countries gain most — implying important transition dynamics for political economy.
Cross-country comparisons, industry- and firm-level panel heterogeneity analyses, and case studies demonstrating variation in adoption timing and gains; model simulations emphasizing transition path dependence.
high mixed The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... industry-/firm-/country-level productivity, income, employment, and adoption tim...
Aggregate productivity (output per worker or per unit of inputs) can rise while labor’s share and employment decline due to substitution toward K_T.
Macro growth-accounting exercises decomposing output growth into contributions from labor, traditional capital, and technological capital; model simulations showing productivity gains coexisting with falling labor shares under substitution elasticities.
high mixed The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... productivity (e.g., TFP or output per worker) and labor share
AI intensifies market concentration, reinforcing winner-takes-most dynamics through data-driven network effects.
Synthesis of market-structure and industrial-organization studies in the SLR reporting evidence of increased concentration and network/data advantages favoring incumbents.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... market concentration and competitive dynamics
AI displaces routine occupations.
Synthesis of empirical and modeling studies within the 78-study SLR reporting occupational/task-level substitution effects for routine activities.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... occupational displacement
The paper formalises an AI productivity transmission gap between technical adoption and inclusive productivity realisation.
Formal definition and derivation within the DIAC theoretical framework (analytical/modeling content).
high negative THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... gap between technical adoption and inclusive productivity realisation
AI does not translate directly from firm-level task efficiency into national productivity; its effect is filtered through complementary intangible investment, skills formation, data governance, competition policy, labor-market mobility, and social insurance.
Analytical DIAC model and accompanying theoretical argumentation in the paper; no empirical sample reported.
high negative THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... transmission from firm-level task efficiency to national productivity (i.e., pro...
The gross tax gap in the U.S is over 600 billion a year.
Statement in paper citing standard U.S. tax-gap estimates (presumably IRS estimates); presented as a factual background statistic in the literature review.
high negative From Compliance to Intelligence: Integrating AI and Predicti... gross tax gap (annual uncollected tax revenue)
The paper identifies an emergent phenomenon called 'Precariousness 2.0' — a state of manufactured uncertainty characterized by loss of professional autonomy and chronic anxiety among workers.
Conceptual/qualitative construct developed in the paper from synthesis of secondary reports and national observations; no primary survey data cited supporting prevalence or magnitude.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... professional autonomy and worker anxiety (qualitative precarity)
Women in high-income countries face a risk of automation nearly three times higher than men due to their concentration in administrative roles.
Paper's secondary quantitative synthesis attributing a ~3x relative risk to occupational gender segregation (administrative roles); based on international report data referenced in the study.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... relative automation risk by gender
39% of current skills become obsolete.
Reported statistic in the paper synthesizing projections from the cited reports (WEF, ILO, McKinsey, PwC); no primary sample size stated.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... share of skills becoming obsolete
22% of employment undergoes structural change (masking the net job gain).
Reported summary statistic from the paper's secondary quantitative analysis of international reports; no primary sample size stated.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... share of employment experiencing structural change
The CAD has implications for knowledge-work stratification and AI platform governance.
Argumentative/policy discussion in the paper linking the CAD to potential stratification among knowledge workers and governance considerations for AI platforms.
high negative The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... knowledge-work stratification / governance outcomes
The probabilistic model demonstrates that manual context attachment leads to a combinatorial collapse in task-success probability as corpus size and task conjunctivity grow.
Results from the paper's probabilistic model (analytic/theoretical demonstration based on fan effect reasoning); no empirical sample reported.
For knowledge-intensive workers whose intellectual capital spans tens of thousands of files, the CAD constitutes a qualitative threshold in AI usefulness: below it, the cognitive burden of context curation falls on the human, reproducing the inefficiencies AI is meant to eliminate.
Theoretical argument grounded in the paper's conceptual discussion about large personal/organizational corpora (stated scale: tens of thousands of files) and the user burden of manual context attachment.
high negative The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... cognitive burden / effective AI usefulness for knowledge work
There exists a finer-grained divide at the level of individual interaction — the Context Access Divide (CAD) — whereby two users with nominally equivalent agent access may experience qualitatively different AI utility depending on whether the system can autonomously retrieve context (Dynamic Context Retrieval) or requires manual document attachment (Manual Attachment).
Conceptual argument and definitional framing in the paper introducing the CAD as a novel dimension of inequality; comparison of two interaction modalities (Dynamic Context Retrieval vs Manual Attachment).
high negative The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... AI utility experienced by the user (qualitative usefulness)
AI development and deployment can shift costs onto others, including systemic risks from rapid frontier development.
Author assertion that rapid frontier development of AI creates systemic risks; no empirical quantification in excerpt.
high negative Taxing Artificial Intelligence systemic risks from frontier AI development
AI development and deployment can shift costs onto others, including labor and creative displacement.
Author assertion identifying labor and creative displacement as an externality of AI; no empirical evidence or sample provided in excerpt.
high negative Taxing Artificial Intelligence labor and creative displacement
AI development and deployment can shift costs onto others, including environmental pressures on local communities.
Author assertion listing environmental pressures as an externality of AI development and deployment; no empirical data or sample provided in excerpt.
high negative Taxing Artificial Intelligence environmental pressures on local communities
Monopoly production of AI restricts its deployment, slowing the transition and impact of AI.
Theoretical model comparing monopolistic AI producer behavior to competitive deployment; result is derived analytically. No empirical sample reported.
high negative The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... AI deployment / transition speed
Wages of labor that is substituted for by AI decrease in both absolute and relative terms.
Analytical economic model / comparative statics predicting wage declines for labor substituted by AI. No empirical sample reported.
high negative The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... wages of labor substituted by AI
AI poses environmental challenges.
The abstract lists environmental challenges as one of the potential trade-offs identified by the systematic review of 194 articles.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... environmental_sustainability / environmental_impact
AI can contribute to widening inequality.
Abstract reports the review identifies widening inequality as a potential trade-off of AI, based on synthesis of 194 articles.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... income_distribution / inequality
AI can give rise to job displacement.
The abstract states the review finds potential trade-offs including job displacement across the surveyed literature (194 articles).
GAGI is a necessary complement to GDP-based monitoring: any macroeconomic monitoring instrument that tracks only aggregate output will systematically miss the distributional harm that automation can cause even while reported growth remains strong.
Argument combining conceptual critique of GDP with empirical demonstration on G7 data using the GAGI index (authors' normative policy recommendation).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... ability of GDP-only monitoring to detect distributional harms from automation (v...
The divergence between welfare-adjusted prosperity (GAGI) and headline GDP widens sharply after 2022, temporally coincident with the after-effects of COVID and the acceleration of generative-AI deployment, though this evidence alone does not demonstrate causation.
Temporal pattern observed in the authors' G7 2010–2026 empirical series (associational observation; authors explicitly note lack of causal identification).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... increase in the gap (widening divergence) between GAGI and GDP per capita after ...
Applying GAGI to the G7 economies over 2010-2026 shows that welfare-adjusted prosperity has diverged persistently and increasingly from headline GDP growth.
Empirical analysis performed on G7 countries over 2010–2026 (sample: 7 economies; time series comparison of GAGI vs. GDP per capita).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... divergence between welfare-adjusted prosperity (GAGI) and headline GDP per capit...
What is missing from the macroeconomic monitoring toolkit is an operational monitoring trigger: a statistic minimal enough to compute annually from public data, transparent enough to audit without modelling assumptions, and normalised so that year-on-year, cross-country change is legible to a regulator.
Normative/methodological claim by the authors arguing for a practical monitoring statistic (no empirical test; statement of need).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... presence/absence of an operational, auditable macroeconomic monitoring statistic
GDP per capita is blind to two first-order determinants of lived prosperity: income/wealth distribution and inflation impact.
Conceptual/definitional argument presented by the authors in the paper (no empirical test reported).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... ability of GDP per capita to reflect consumer welfare (specifically distribution...
Mediation analysis: AI adoption contracts employment in production and managerial positions.
Mediation models using occupational/role-level employment categories showing reductions in production and managerial headcounts associated with AI adoption.
high negative Creative disruption or destructive inequality? Firm-level ev... employment in production and managerial roles
AI adoption widens intra-firm pay disparities (increases pay inequality within firms).
Regression analyses showing divergent effects on employee vs. executive pay and explicit measures of intra-firm pay disparity in the panel data.
high negative Creative disruption or destructive inequality? Firm-level ev... intra-firm pay disparities (inequality between employees and executives)
Oligopolistic capture of productivity gains is intelligible as an outcome of AI-driven assetisation (i.e., productivity gains are appropriated by a small number of firms).
Theoretical claim based on political economy argument about assetisation and market power; no empirical sample or quantitative evidence reported in the excerpt.
high negative From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset distribution of productivity gains (capture by oligopolies)
Labour markets for university-educated workers are where the explanatory limits of human capital theory are most consequentially exposed.
Theoretical critique supported by political economy / sociological reasoning (no empirical sample reported).
high negative From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset adequacy of human capital theory to explain outcomes in university-educated labo...