A #GreenEconomy transition relies on vital raw materials, with production currently dominated by China. This column explores the issues & policy solutions Beata Javorcik Department of Economics, Oxford, Lucas Kitzmüller, Helena Schweiger, X Wang The EBRD, Sushil Mathew Imperial College London ow.ly/2Rpn50QajW2

This column examines #GreenTransition attitudes and labour markets in emerging #Europe, highlighting slow labour market adaptation despite growing demand for green skills @cagataybircan, Lucas Kitzmüller, N Satish The EBRD, S Noor Harvard Kennedy School ow.ly/A8v350Qalj9

🚨 New Working Paper Alert 🚨 "Missing Evidence: Tracking Academic Data Use around the World” documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…

Now with pretty data viz by Brian Stacy! 👉 wrld.bg/m5Vv50QzkgB

🚨Neues Papier🚨 Gestern wurde bekannt, dass Intel-Magdeburg für mind. 2 Jahre pausiert wird. Aber wie ist die 33 Mrd. Investition grundsätzlich einzuordnen? Ist die öff. Subvention von ca. €10 Mrd. gut verwendetes Geld? Nils Gerresheim & Max Krahé haben es analysiert. 1/4

"In an increasing number of countries, we have moved beyond a narrowing gap in socio-economic outcomes [between men and women], and there is now a new and growing gap in the opposite direction." Important analysis by John Burn-Murdoch: ft.com/content/17606f…

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One of the more striking stats in the #Draghi report: "The key driver of the rising productivity gap between the EU and the US has been digital technology ... *if we exclude the tech sector, EU productivity growth over the past twenty years would be broadly at par with the US.*"

The notion that bigger = better in AI is being instrumented in recent industrial policy moves to invest in massive data and compute. But the science doesn't bear this out, as this paper by Meredith Whittaker Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 and Gael Varoquaux 🦋 carefully documents: arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Meine 2 Cent zur Debatte um die 1000-Euro-Prämie für Langzeitarbeitslose: Es ist keine neue Erkenntnis, aber doch immer wieder erstaunlich, wie Neiddebatten funktionieren. 🧵1/10

In a new report, @MollyKinder, @xavbriggs & Mark Muro find that there is a stark mismatch between the industries and occupations most exposed to generative AI and the sectors where workers have substantial union strength. Read more: brookings.edu/articles/gener…

It's worth emphasizing why this paper is important, economically: Automating *science* is fundamentally different from automating production of cars/toys/stuff (for the same reason that science/ideas are fundamentally different from goods -- ideas are infinitely usable)

"US labour productivity has grown by 30 per cent since the 2008-09 financial crisis, more than three times the pace in the Eurozone and the UK. That productivity gap, visible for a decade, is reshaping the hierarchy of the global economy." This quote and the charts below are from

A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points. This is partly motivated by the fact that I have received questions from several people on these issues, and I feel like it may be useful to lay out my thinking in simple terms in one place. We are

So at least German voters do know this now before the election: In case of doubt, Friedrich Merz is prepared to form majorities with the extreme right A historic taboo has been broken in Germany today. On the day the Bundestag was supposed to remember the Holocaust.

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