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AI Without a Degree: What the Dallas Fed Found About Good Jobs

About half of American workers don't hold a bachelor's degree, and almost none of the AI-and-jobs research is written about them. A Dallas Fed economist just put numbers on that gap: administrative roles at 60% automation risk, truck drivers at 12%, and a short-term credential worth about $5,000 a year. Here is where the Fed's own prescription breaks down.

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ai-labor-market

Your Job Is 25 Tasks. New Data Prices Each One Separately.

ADP Research and Stanford linked 5 million job postings to 9 million payroll records to answer a question labor statistics almost never touch: what is each individual task inside a job actually worth? Eight tasks carry a wage premium, six carry a penalty — and five lost value after generative AI arrived. One of the five is the exact task everyone has been told to move toward.

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ai-labor-market

33 Straight Months: AI-Exposed Entry-Level Jobs Keep Shrinking

Employment in America's most AI-exposed occupations has fallen for 33 consecutive months among workers aged 22-25 — down 4.3% in the past year. Across all ages, the same occupations fell just 0.2%. That gap is the entire story, and it says something very specific about where the damage is actually landing: at the door, not inside the building.

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ai-labor-market

UK Official Data: AI Adoption Tripled to 35%, But Depth Barely Moved

The share of UK businesses using AI nearly tripled — from 12% to 35%. Over the same period the number of AI tools the average adopter actually runs went from 1.4 to 1.6. New ONS official statistics name the exact job roles employers say are affected, and that gap between wide adoption and shallow use changes what you should expect for your own job.

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ai-labor-market

Who Takes the Hit? World Bank Finds GenAI Job Losses Are Uneven

Job postings for AI-vulnerable occupations fell 5.8% in high-income countries after ChatGPT — and barely moved in developing ones. A World Bank study of 555 million postings across 84 countries shows who is absorbing the first wave of GenAI displacement: entry-level workers, with US postings requiring no experience down 20% and administrative support down 40%.

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ai-labor-market

World Bank WDR 2026: Why Rich Countries Face 3x the AI Automation Risk

The World Bank's flagship WDR 2026 finds 14.2% of jobs in high-income countries at risk from generative AI versus just 4.5% in developing economies — yet the productivity upside is nearly identical. Here's what the Bank's most comprehensive AI assessment means for your job.

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ai-labor-market

El Banco de Bancos Centrales Advierte: la IA Congela la Contratación Antes de Recortar Empleos

El BPI dice que la IA no ha provocado despidos masivos — ha congelado la contratación en su lugar. El desempleo se mantiene bajo mientras la búsqueda de trabajo se vuelve brutal. El Boletín 130 explica por qué ambas cosas son ciertas, qué ocupaciones muestran las primeras señales de sustitución, y qué pueden hacer los trabajadores con esta advertencia.

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ai-labor-market

Las Vacantes de IA Son 75-85% STEM en los 10 Países Estudiados — La Nueva Brecha de Contratación

Entre 75% y 85% de las vacantes relacionadas con IA están en ocupaciones STEM — en los 10 países que examinó un nuevo estudio, desde EE. UU. hasta Indonesia. Salud, educación, servicios y logística reciben menos del 5% cada uno, y las mayores exigencias de habilidades de IA caen sobre los empleos de nivel de entrada. Esto es lo que significan los datos para tu carrera.

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ai-automation

Preparándonos para 2040: Cuatro Escenarios de IA que Ponen tu Futuro en tus Manos

Aquí hay un número que debería cambiar cómo piensas sobre la IA y tu empleo: 27 puntos porcentuales. Esa es la brecha entre los trabajadores europeos que dicen necesitar habilidades de IA y los que realmente han recibido capacitación. Un nuevo reporte prospectivo de Cedefop mapea cuatro futuros para 2040 — y argumenta que cuál llega es una elección, no una profecía.

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labor-market

Ejecutivos de Texas que Usan IA Dicen que No Ha Reducido su Personal — Todavía

Pregúntale a 203 ejecutivos de Texas que realmente usan IA qué le hizo a su plantilla, y el 76% dice: nada. Pero la misma encuesta de la Fed de Dallas muestra que los recortes de empleo esperados corren 2.5 veces más calientes que los reales — más una brecha de 10 a 1 entre la productividad que entrega la IA y el pago que devuelve.

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policy

Brookings: No Hay Bala de Plata para la IA y el Empleo — Pero Sí Cuatro Palancas Reales

Cerca de tres cuartas partes de los adultos en EE. UU. temen que la IA cueste empleos. Menos del 6% de los trabajadores del sector privado tiene sindicato para negociar su despliegue. Un nuevo marco de Brookings (29 de junio de 2026) llama a esa brecha 'el gran desajuste' — y argumenta que la respuesta no es una política milagrosa sino cuatro palancas: frenos, direcciones, amortiguadores y cambios estructurales.

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labor-market

Fed de Dallas: la IA Eleva la Productividad Solo Donde la Gente Realmente la Usa

El puntaje de exposición a la IA de tu industria no predice casi nada. Nueva investigación de la Fed de Dallas en EE. UU. y 16 economías europeas muestra que la variable real es el uso: los sectores de EE. UU. con alta exposición crecieron su productividad 3.7% mientras sectores idénticos de la UE no mostraron correlación. El índice de uso de IA de EE. UU. es 3.69 contra 1.85 de la UE. La exposición se te asigna. El uso se elige.

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ai-automation

La Ansiedad por la Automatización Es Sobre Todo una Historia. La Evidencia Puede Corregirla.

Más de la mitad de los trabajadores de EE. UU. y Alemania creen que la automatización va a subir el desempleo. Menos de tres de cada diez creen que les va a pasar a ellos. Un experimento aleatorizado con 5,147 trabajadores muestra qué pasa cuando le muestras a la gente la evidencia real — y dónde deja de funcionar el consuelo.

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ai-automation

La IA Refleja tu Semana Laboral: el Reporte Cadences de Anthropic, Explicado

Anthropic rastreó a 9,700 trabajadores y millones de conversaciones con Claude. Las consultas de impuestos se dispararon 8 veces el 14 de abril. Y la gente que le delega más trabajo a la IA es la que menos le preocupa perder su empleo. Esto es lo que realmente dicen los datos.

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ai-automation

AI Is Spreading Fastest Where Workers Already Earn the Most

PIIE data shows AI adoption jumped from 4% to 12% at large firms in two years. But here is the twist: the industries adopting it fastest are the ones that already pay the highest wages. AI is following the money, not chasing the low-skill jobs everyone warned about.

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ai-automation

One in Four German Companies Now Uses Generative AI

In just two years, generative AI adoption in German workplaces jumped from 5% to 24% — a near five-fold leap. But the gap between who is using it and who is not tells the real story about your job.

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labor-market

Australia's First Gen AI Capacity Study: 79% of Workers Face Low Risk

Australia's federal Jobs and Skills Australia agency analyzed 358 occupations and found 79% of workers face low or very low AI automation risk — but the 21% who don't are clustered in routine clerical work, while professionals see the highest augmentation gains.

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ai-adoption

28% of US Workers Use ChatGPT at Work — OpenAI 2026 Report

Two years ago it was 8%. Now 28% of US workers use ChatGPT on the job — and Fortune 500 adoption hit 93%. Here is what OpenAIs April 2026 workplace report means for your specific occupation, and the gap quietly opening between knowledge workers and everyone else.

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research

MIT Asked 17,000 Workers What AI Can Actually Do at Their Jobs

A new MIT FutureTech study flipped the automation forecast: instead of experts predicting AI impact, 17,000+ workers evaluated real LLM outputs on their own tasks. The results upend conventional wisdom about who is most exposed.

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labor-market

ADP: Job-Switcher Wage Premium Hits 5-Year Low as 45% of Workers Now Part-Time

Job-changers earned 6.4% wage growth vs 4.5% for stayers in January 2026 — the narrowest gap since 2020. New-hire pay broke its 18-month $18/hr plateau, jumping to $19. And 45% of workers now work part-time, up 6 percentage points from 2019. ADP's structural pay-trends analysis.

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research-roundup

Will AI Erase 10 Million Jobs? NBER Forecasters Can't Agree

A new NBER paper compared 5 forecaster groups on AI's labor market impact. The median says GDP grows 2.5%/year. The rapid scenario says ~10M jobs gone by 2050. The disagreement reveals more than the numbers.

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policy

Fed's Barr Names 3 AI Scenarios — Including 'Essentially Unemployable'

A US Federal Reserve governor used the phrase 'essentially unemployable' out loud last month — and he wasn't talking about a fringe scenario. Fed Vice Chair Michael S. Barr's February 17, 2026 speech laid out three AI futures the Fed is actively planning around, and signals the rate-cut narrative may not survive an AI productivity boom.

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Yale Budget Lab: AI Exposure Hasn't Moved Workforce Distribution Since ChatGPT

29% of US workers are in occupations with the lowest AI exposure. 18% are in the highest. And the share has not budged since ChatGPT launched. The Yale Budget Lab's February 2026 synthesis finds AI exposure is real and measurable — but it has not yet translated into measurable employment displacement.

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research-trends

Anthropic's New AI Exposure Score: 22-25 Year-Olds Hit First

Anthropic's economists built a new way to measure which jobs are actually being done by AI right now. The first warning sign? Young workers entering high-exposure fields are seeing 0.5pp fewer hires. The full data tells a more hopeful story than you might expect.

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