HKS Affiliated Authors
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, HKS; William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics, FAS; Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE
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October 4, 2024, Paper: "This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of artificial intelligence (AI). The authors measure changes in the structure of the US labor market going back over a century in two ways. First, they examine the relative frequencies of occupations from 1880-2020. Over that period, the structure of the US labor market underwent two large shifts..."