Same Storm, Different Boats: Generative AI and the Age Gradient in Hiring
Ratio Institute Working Paper No. 388 (Lodefalk, Löthman, Koch, Engberg) on how generative AI relates to hiring across age groups. Free PDF.
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Ratio Institute Working Paper No. 388 (Lodefalk, Löthman, Koch, Engberg) on how generative AI relates to hiring across age groups. Free PDF.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab paper using payroll data to track employment changes for early-career workers in jobs most exposed to AI.
Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb's January 2026 NBER working paper modeling how automating some tasks in a chain of interdependent tasks changes the value of the remaining human work. Free PDF.
arXiv paper (Sept. 2026) introducing SkillGym, a framework that turns human-written agent skills into executable, verifiable training environments so language model agents learn them as built-in capabilities.
An open-access paper on Zenodo describing Critical AI Literacies (CAILs): ways of thinking about AI that reject framings from the technology industry, naive computationalism, and dehumanizing ideologies, and that center human cognition and the integrity of research and education. Co-authored by Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, among others.
AARP's Longevity Economy Outlook series measures how Americans 50 and older contribute to the U.S. economy, including their spending, jobs supported, tax payments, and unpaid caregiving and charitable contributions. The reports include projections through 2060 and key findings for employers and policymakers.
Why I recommend it: Useful for seeing the scale of older workers and consumers in the labor market — a counterweight to coverage that treats workers over 50 as an afterthought.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation publication on workforce policy, hosted on Issuu. Described from title; details not checked page by page.
Joint Center report (PDF) with policy recommendations on voting rights, economic opportunity, workforce, education, healthcare, criminal legal system, technology and immigration.
Epoch AI report on a spatial reasoning benchmark built around finding mistakes in photos of partially assembled IKEA furniture — a proxy for economically important visual reasoning tasks like repair work. Top scores jumped from 28% to 80% in 10 months; Chinese open-weight models trail the frontier by about 7 months.
The Governance Lab's research, publications and programs on how institutions can govern more effectively and legitimately through technology and data.
Site of the PhyPID group at the University of Colorado Boulder, working at the intersection of physics, AI, and data-driven discovery.
A Visual Capitalist chart using Federal Reserve data to compare U.S. household net worth across generations in 2026.
Nonpartisan social policy research organization evaluating education, workforce and anti-poverty programs, including AI in career services.
An open-access scholarly article in the Business and Human Rights Journal (2025) by Jake Okechukwu Effoduh of Toronto Metropolitan University. It examines how Big Tech firms and local intermediaries perpetuate data exploitation, infrastructure dependency and algorithmic bias in Africa, drawing parallels between historical colonialism and the modern digital economy.
An arXiv paper showing how message-passing techniques let language models reason more efficiently, with the full text free to read and download.
Why I recommend it: A preprint — not yet peer-reviewed, so treat the results as preliminary until the work is replicated or published.