Time saved by AI ⏳ offset by new work created, study suggests | Large Language Models 🤖, Small Labor Market Effects 📊
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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
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The countries with highest labor productivity will see declines in the labor force while Africa will account for most of the labor growth. Creating legal pathways for people to move from low productivity places to labor scarce places would enable gains on the order of trillions of dollars.
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Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces
(Winter 2026) - Falling fertility and improved mortality create a powerful and inexorable demographic arithmetic of ageing in the coming decades around the world, with three patterns. The richest countries, along with China and the Former Soviet Union, will…
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Germany’s minimum wage reduced wage inequality with little overall employment loss, but “minijob” workers saw fewer working hours and some job exits. Effects became stronger after the large 2022 wage hike, showing policy details strongly shape outcomes. Read…
* 🇩🇪 A study published in 2026 in the Journal of Public Economics investigates the varied impacts of Germany's minimum wage on working hours and "minijobs" (low-paying part-time jobs).
* 📊 The research focuses on the "heterogeneous effects," meaning the minimum wage doesn't affect everyone or every job type in the same way.
* 📄 The DOI for this research is 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105540, and it was cited by Kharazi, Lu, and Mustafa in a 2026 paper on Pakistan's labor market.
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* 📊 The research focuses on the "heterogeneous effects," meaning the minimum wage doesn't affect everyone or every job type in the same way.
* 📄 The DOI for this research is 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105540, and it was cited by Kharazi, Lu, and Mustafa in a 2026 paper on Pakistan's labor market.
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Volatile weekly work hours have adverse effects on health, employment: while men tend to experience worsening health but remain in their jobs, women are more likely to reduce their hours, suspend work, or leave their jobs entirely for health-related reasons…
💡 Workers with unpredictable work hours face health risks, with differing impacts based on gender. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study examined over 61,000 U.S. workers (ages 18-64) from 2016-2024.
👨💼 Men experiencing significant week-to-week changes in their work hours were more likely to report worsening health but stayed in their jobs. The probability of health deterioration for men increased from 28% to 38% with greater work-hour volatility.
👩💼 Women, however, tended to reduce hours, suspend, or leave jobs due to health issues stemming from unstable work. Their health effects became visible only when health-related work limitations were included as an outcome.
📊 The research, published in SSM – Population Health, highlights that job quality includes schedule stability, not just pay or total hours. The study's authors are Sinyee Qianyi Lu and Professor Tim Liao.
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👨💼 Men experiencing significant week-to-week changes in their work hours were more likely to report worsening health but stayed in their jobs. The probability of health deterioration for men increased from 28% to 38% with greater work-hour volatility.
👩💼 Women, however, tended to reduce hours, suspend, or leave jobs due to health issues stemming from unstable work. Their health effects became visible only when health-related work limitations were included as an outcome.
📊 The research, published in SSM – Population Health, highlights that job quality includes schedule stability, not just pay or total hours. The study's authors are Sinyee Qianyi Lu and Professor Tim Liao.
#WorkplaceWellness #LaborMarket #HealthEquity