Currently, 70% of U.S. firms report difficulties in hiring skilled labor (Manpower Group, 2024), and labor scarcity is expected to aggravate in the future due to demographic change.
Podcast with Julien Mc Donald-Guimond interviewing TPRI’s Executive Director, James Bessen, on why automation sometimes increases employment and decreases it at other time.
La planche à billets ASDEQ , May 8, 2024.
Eric J. Evans, Alexandre Meyer, Rena M. Conti’s paper “Sizing A Market Entry Reward for the Development of New Antibiotics” M-RCBG Associate Working Paper No. 232, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2024.
By David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require.
A recent paper “Perpetuating Wage Inequality: Evidence from Salary History Bans” published in the Journal of Economic Inequality by scholars from TPRI (James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng) has influenced policy.