This research presents a new metric known as "AI Augmentation," aimed at quantifying the influence of generative AI across diverse job roles, organizations, and sectors. The analysis defies prevailing expectations of job losses due to AI, instead demonstrating a reverse correlation between AI...

This policy note examines sectoral and occupational employment impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. The crisis hit EU economies (and advanced economies in general) as they were already undergoing important structural changes due to technological change (digitisation), a factor affecting most...

This report takes stock of recent research into the effects of technology on the labor market; assesses to what extent the Swedish labor market has been affected by technological change in the past three decades, in particular with respect to the themes highlighted by the research; and draws...

The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...

We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the near term, but...

In der Schweiz schwächte sich das Wirtschaftswachstum im Laufe des vergangenen Jahres rasch ab. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt dürfte nur noch um 1½% gestiegen sein. Die Arbeitslosenquote verringerte sich im Jahresdurchschnitt auf 1,8% und verzeichnete somit die niedrigste Rate seit Ende der...

In den Niederlanden verlangsamte sich 2001 die konjunkturelle Expansion zunächst und stagnierte ab Jahresmitte. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt erhöhte sich nur noch um 1,1%. Auch der Anstieg der Beschäftigung verlangsamte sich deutlich. Die vor allem bei qualifizierten Kräften vielfach...

In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and...