Literature Tracker

How artificial intelligence reshapes labor demand, employment, wages, and inequality — covering AI exposure measurement, productivity experiments, aggregate labor market effects, task reorganization, and distributional consequences.

Literature on the AKM two-way fixed effects decomposition of wages using matched employer-employee data.

How worker mobility diffuses technology and knowledge across firms, and how labor market frictions affect the rate and direction of knowledge diffusion and innovation.

How education and training costs shape skilled labor supply, and how talent supply lags constrain growth during rapid technological change.

How technologies and knowledge spread across agents and over time: adoption costs and their mechanisms, heterogeneity in adoption, social learning, knowledge spillovers and their geographic and network structure, knowledge depreciation, and the aggregate productivity consequences of diffusion frictions.

Methodology and applications of shift-share (Bartik) instrumental variables in empirical economics: identification theory, foreign-shift designs, occupation-level task exposure designs, and causal estimation of labor market effects of trade, automation, and immigration.