Now that we are getting some clearer signals from the labor market about how AI may be affecting employment of different groups, Enrique Ide provides a terrific thread tying together the key results with his new paper on AI in the Knowledge Economy with Eduard Talamas.

A great thread making sense out of the emerging stylized facts on the labour market impact of AI, on the basis of the forthcoming JPE paper by Enrique Ide and Eduard Talamàs

Enrique Ide Wonderful work, so helpful! And this last paper *really* has my attention. I've been doing empirical research on this question since 2012 (e.g,. jstor.org/stable/48589023, recently for a popular audience theskillcodebook.com). I'll read carefully today.

Enrique Ide Erik Brynjolfsson Bharat Chandar Ruyu Chen Very nice, Enrique. This explanation aligns very well with what I found when comparing production vs admin workers: x.com/GusMicrotoMacr…

How will AI reshape jobs—not just replace them? Daniel Rock, 2023 AI2050 Early Career Fellow at Wharton, studies how AI transforms individual tasks within jobs and is building a model to track those shifts. Read the Q&A: ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/community-pers…

There is widespread sense AI adoption is slowing down and productivity gains are hard to get. Is it true? Why? I just attended the inaugural conference of the Center for AI, Management and Organizations at Hong Kong University. A thread on insights. 1/17

Live from Palo Alto! "The Economics of Transformative AI" NBER workshop. I will be trying to live tweet (mega jet lagged--flew from HKG--, so I really hope I can keep it up) the papers presented. Watch this thread Here is the fantastic line up nber.org/conferences/ec…

Our next talk is on Thursday, 16 Oct 2025. 👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag. Suraj Malladi

Links: My post on the AI-Becker problem on Silicon Continent: siliconcontinent.com/p/the-ai-becke… The CEPR working paper: dropbox.com/scl/fi/hyy8scd…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr

AI and Labor Markets: What We Know and Don’t Know by Bharat Chandar (in 14 clear, concise pieces) digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/ai-and-la…

The November issue of JPE is now available at journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpe/2025/1…. This issue features an In Memoriam to Robert E. Lucas Jr.--a tribute to his lasting impact on economics and as JPE editor. Contributors include T. Sargent, F. Alvarez, B. Jovanovic, and N. Stokey. #econtwitter