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AI raises demand for advanced technical skills but heightens job insecurity where reskilling and participatory governance are absent; firms that combine targeted human-capital investment with transparent governance see lower resistance and smoother implementation.
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Artificial intelligence and organisational transformation: technical skills, job insecurity and adoption · Lorena Arranz Lahuerta, María Rosa López Ramajo, Andrés Gandía · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
AI is both an enabler and a disruptor: it spawns new AI-augmented jobs and productivity gains but also displaces routine work and risks widening skill and income gaps; coordinated upskilling, organizational change and regulation are required to secure inclusive benefits.
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THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE WORKPLACE: OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, AND THE REDEFINITION OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS · Maiza Fikri, Marta Eriska · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Generative AI is reshaping tasks, not just jobs: firms that pair AI-enabled, real-time skill assessment with systematic upskilling and organizational change capture efficiency and innovation gains while reducing displacement risks.
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GenAI Role in Redefining Learning and Skilling in Companies · I. Hamburg · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
AI looks capable of displacing much of traditional higher education’s scalable work—lectures, administration and literature synthesis—but not its human core: mentorship, social formation and ethical education. The likely equilibrium is hybrid AI–human providers, modular credentials and major pressure on accreditation, reskilling systems and social-mobility pathways.
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Are Universities Becoming Obsolete in the Age of Artificial Intelligence? · K. Mili, K. Abdelaziz · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Gig platforms now make up 4.2% of OECD employment and supply 12.8% of participating workers' income, but median hourly pay is about 22% lower than traditional jobs; jurisdictions that reclassified platform workers as employees saw platform labor supply fall 18% and hourly pay for those remaining rise 31%.
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The Gig Economy and Labor Market Restructuring: Platform Work, Worker Classification, and the Future of Employment Relations · V. Han · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Personality inferred from LinkedIn photos predicts MBA graduates' job matches and pay as strongly as race and education, and workers whose photo-inferred traits fit occupational demands earn higher wages. While the scalable 'Photo Big 5' enables new large-scale research on noncognitive skills, it also risks facilitating covert screening and statistical discrimination.
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AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications · Marius Guenzel, Shimon Kogan, Marina Niessner, Kelly Shue · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Treating firms as large, strategic employers changes everything: a macro general-equilibrium approach that embeds micro causal estimates shows employer monopsony can generate large misallocation and welfare losses, and that policies like minimum wages and antitrust can materially improve outcomes in concentrated markets.
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Labor Market Power: From Micro Evidence to Macro Consequences · David W. Berger, Kyle F. Herkenhoff, S. Mongey · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Gaps in what firms and workers believe about the economy drive wage and job volatility: optimistic, slow-learning workers command higher hiring wages in downturns but face greater separation risk later. Faster firm learning calms short-run swings but lengthens transitions, implying AI tools that improve forecasting may reduce volatility while prolonging adjustment.
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Inaccurate Beliefs and Cyclical Labor Market Dynamics · Jenny Siqin Ding · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Telling people AI will destroy jobs undermines democratic trust and dampens political engagement: two preregistered, nationally representative experiments (replicated US/UK) and a Europe-wide survey show labor‑replacing frames erode support for democratic institutions and reduce willingness to participate in AI policymaking.
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Perceiving AI as labor-replacing reduces democratic legitimacy and political engagement · Armin Granulo, Andreas Raff, Christoph Fuchs · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
The shadow digital economy is a structured, marketized criminal ecosystem whose modular labour markets and reusable tooling let illicit activity scale—and AI is lowering costs and quality barriers. Regulators should treat AI‑enabled illicit markets as a systemic policy concern and fold them into financial and consumer‑protection frameworks.
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THE LABOR MARKET IN TERMS OF THE SHADOW DIGITAL ECONOMY · Serghei Ohrimenco, Tatiana Manasterska, Lucia Gujuman · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Generative AI could reshape many Philippine service jobs, but exposure does not equal inevitable job loss: most exposed roles show complementarities and early adoption has led to task reconfiguration and skills shortages rather than mass layoffs. Without timely skills, governance and social-protection policies, however, the country risks polarization or disruptive displacement by 2025–2035.
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Labor Futures Under Artificial Intelligence: Scenarios for the Philippine Economy · D. Ligot · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Party ideology shapes how politicians talk about AI and work: left-leaning parties frame AI as a threat requiring regulation and public retraining, while right-leaning parties stress productivity gains and favor market-based responses; this pattern holds across OECD countries and over time, despite country-level variation.
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Political Ideology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Labor Markets: How Political Party Members Perceive AI’s Effects in OECD Countries · Lance Y. Hunter · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
AI innovation has boosted urban jobs across Chinese cities between 2010 and 2023, with the largest gains in manufacturing and services and particularly in southern cities. The effect works partly by increasing economic density, is stronger where city governments pay more digital attention, and spills over to neighbouring municipalities.
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How Does AI Innovation Affect Urban Employment in China? A Mechanistic Analysis Based on Economic Density and Governmental Digital Attention · Xiaoxian Chen, Hairong Zheng, Suchang Yang · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Nurseries face a sustained U.S. labor shortfall that H‑2A visas only partly fill; automation has inched up about 15 percentage points over 15 years but remains patchy—no task is majority-automated—so public funding and shared-equipment models will be pivotal to develop weather-robust, low-cost AI/robotics for this heterogeneous sector.
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Current Labor Challenges and Opportunities in Nursery Crops Production · A. LeBude, A. Fulcher, James E. Altland, Margarita Velandia, Zoe Turner, Alicia ... · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
A rigid U.S. green-card system has trapped more than 1.8 million skilled workers and their families, concentrating employer power and suppressing wages by an estimated 12.2%; phasing out the per-country cap, raising the annual ceiling, exempting dependents, and recapturing unused visas would free hundreds of thousands of slots and sharply reduce waits.
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The United States' Employment-Based Immigration System: An Analysis of H-1B Worker Backlogs, Policy Shortcomings, and Reform Pathways · A. Balamurugan · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Rapid, multi‑factor AI adoption will likely raise productivity but also concentrate job losses and widen inequality unless governments and firms adopt proactive, targeted policies; redistribution, reskilling, and governance measures are urgent to manage the transition.
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A Study on Work-Life Balance of Women Employees in the IT Sector: Exploring the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Job Displacement · N. Rajitha, Dr. K. Venugopala Rao · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
ChatGPT reshapes gig work unevenly: in some online markets it raises freelancers’ workload and pay, while in others it replaces them. A Cournot-based inflection-point model and DiD evidence across ChatGPT versions show markets can flip from AI-complementarity to AI-substitution as capabilities improve.
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Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Has the Inflection Point Arrived? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform · Dandan Qiao, Huaxia Rui, Qian Xiong · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Emotional intelligence, not technical literacy, best predicts worker productivity: well-being and engagement channel the gains, while AI intensity amplifies but cannot replace human-centered capabilities.
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Emotional Intelligence as Human Capital: A Behavioral Economic Perspective on Productivity, Well-Being and Sustainable Economic Growth · Gurulakshmi S, Dr Gayathri R · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
AI drives simultaneous automation and augmentation: it raises productivity and creates new, higher-value tasks even as it displaces routine jobs, concentrating income gains among skilled workers and capital owners and widening geographic and sectoral inequalities without targeted policy action.
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The Future of Work in the Age of AI: Economic Implications, Policy Challenges, and Emerging Debates · A. Lima · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Simulations indicate AI-driven HR systems could have meaningfully boosted productivity and profitability in historical industrial firms, with the largest gains in labor‑intensive, hierarchical operations; results depend on modeling assumptions and do not replace causal evidence.
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Resource Management: A Counterfactual Analysis of Productivity · Geoffrey Ditta · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Policy uncertainty dulls markets’ attention to productivity in the AI sector: when economic-policy uncertainty is high, stock valuations of AI and robotics firms respond far less to labor productivity growth, risking mispricing and impaired capital allocation.
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Policy Uncertainty and the Pricing of Productivity · Arsene Oka · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
AI acts largely as skill‑biased technological change: it boosts productivity by complementing high‑skill, non‑routine work while displacing routine tasks, generating short‑run job and wage disruptions that risk widening inequality unless offset by education, reskilling and active labor‑market policies.
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Analysis of Economics and the Labor Market: With Implications to Artificial Intelligence · Landry Draper · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Listed agricultural firms in China that adopt AI register sizable productivity gains driven by labor reallocation and cross‑firm resource sharing rather than immediate boosts to university–industry R&D; benefits are concentrated among growing firms and in regions exposed to greater natural risk.
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Artificial intelligence and the sustainable development of agricultural enterprises: a total factor productivity perspective · Qijia Zhang, Qin Wang, Yutao Liang, Ke Zhang, Hao Hu · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
AI adoption lifts productivity and innovation in listed Chinese design firms, especially where firms have strong digital infrastructure and state or high‑tech backing; gains appear to come from automating routine project tasks and freeing designers for higher‑value work.
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AI-driven design management: enhancing organizational productivity and innovation in design-oriented companies · Ting Zhang, H. Lou, Yuwei Liu, Guoying Lu · Fetched Mar 15, 2026
Robotic greenhouses in Northwest Indiana create bigger local economic ripples than conventional farms, generating larger multipliers for output, jobs and labor income; however, the gains are model-based and hinge on fixed I–O assumptions. Automation raises productivity and shifts employment toward technical maintenance roles, implying public investment in workforce training and local-supply incentives to capture regional benefits.
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ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY IN REMOTE GREENHOUSE FARMING: EVIDENCE FROM NORTHWEST INDIANA · A. Mitra · Fetched Mar 15, 2026