AI and the Future of Work

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Labor Economics

Expertise

Journal of the European Economic Association, 23(4), pp. 1203–1271.
David Autor, Neil Thompson
August 2025
Labor Economics

Resolving the Automation Paradox: Falling Labor Share, Rising Wages

David Autor and B.N. Kausik
January 2026
Labor Economics

Misaligned by Design: Incentive Failures in Machine Learning

David Autor, Andrew Caplin, Daniel Martin, and Philip Marx
November 2025
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Labor Economics

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 139(3), pp 1399-1465
David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller
August 2024
Labor Economics

What Makes New Work Different from More Work?

forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics
David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, and Bryan Seegmiller
March 2026
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Replication Files
Labor Economics

Artificial Intelligence and Jobs - Evidence from Online Vacancies

Journal of Labor Economics, 40(S1), pp. S293-S340.
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell, Pascual Restrepo
April 2022

Labor Economics

A Better Way to Think about AI

The Atlantic
David Autor, James Manyika
August 2025
Labor Economics

A review of Maximilian Kasy's "The Means of Production: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"

Journal of Economic Literature (forthcoming)
David Autor
Labor Economics

Beyond Job Displacement: How AI Could Displace the Value of Human Expertise

The Digitalist Papers, Volume 2
David Autor, Neil Thomas
December 2025
Labor Economics

Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence

Brookings Institution, February 2026.
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and Simon Johnson
February 2026
Labor Economics

AI Could Actually Help Rebuild the Middle Class

NOEMA Magazine
David Autor
February 2024