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November 22, 2024
A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
…innovations and a surge in the creation of new businesses, may be part of the recent acceleration in U.S. labor productivity. From a workforce-development standpoint, the role of businesses in driving…
November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the workforce, yet the workers who stand to benefit the most are often the most wary of it. Lower-skilled and less-educated workers view AI as…
October 8, 2024
Unplanned Obsolescence
…comfortable working around and with it. As the saying goes, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Further, as Stanford University labor economist Erik Brynjolfsson has…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…use and zoning regulation would help people afford to move to opportunity. Productivity growth—the engine for raising living standards—has been stuck at too-low levels for too long. Shifting government spending…
June 6, 2024
How New Graduates Can Thrive in a Workplace Dominated by AI
…ahead. From the standpoint of jobs and careers, AI is the biggest unknown. Right now, the impact of AI is like a rumor: something big but undefined is coming and…
May 30, 2024
Building a High Tech Workforce for the Future
…to retrain as AI use specialists. In March, at a meeting organized by NYU economist Dr. Julia Lane, AEI, and Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab, a workshop of senior economists…
May 21, 2024
Did AI Just Pass the Turing Test?
…in the UC San Diego study is that it clearly identifies what constitutes true human-level intelligence. It isn’t mastery of advanced calculus or another challenging technical field. Instead, what stands…
April 11, 2024
What a New Report on 10 years of AI Research Reveals
…personal control. As we stand on the brink of a new era in the workforce and the economy at large, the message is clear: When it comes to the future of work,…
March 27, 2024
Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…college. This assertion can be especially damaging for rural and Republican-dominated areas of the country that stand to lose the most by abandoning higher education. Residents of these areas are…