Labour market

Week 41 · 5-11 Oct

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Week 28 · 6-12 Jul

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    Employment Outlook 2026

    Average OECD employment rate reached 72.1% in Q1 2026 and labour force participation 76.7%; the median unemployment rate rose from 5.4% in May 2025 to 5.7% in May 2026.

    72.1%average OECD employment rate in Q1 2026, a historic high

Week 14 · 30 Mar-5 Apr

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    AI Will Reshape More Jobs Than It Replaces

    The model covers about 165 million US jobs (BLS, January 2026) spread across roughly 1,500 Revelio Labs roles.

    50% to 55%US jobs BCG expects AI to reshape over the next two to three years

March 2026

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    AI Part 1 lecture slides

    Computing cost fell about seven trillion-fold between 1940 and 2006 (Nordhaus); AI differs from traditional computing by handling tacit knowledge, in Polanyi's sense of "we know more than we can tell".

    0.548 SD to 0.139 SDeducation-based productivity gap without vs with AI access (Cruces et al. 2026, N=1,174)

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    Building pro-worker AI

    Five categories of technological change: labour-augmenting, capital-augmenting, automating, expertise-leveling and new task-creating.

    52%US workers surveyed in 2024 who are worried about how AI will affect their jobs