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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

O Banco dos Bancos Centrais Diz Que a IA Está Congelando Contratações Antes de Cortar Empregos

O BIS diz que a IA ainda não provocou demissões em massa — em vez disso, ela congelou as contratações. O desemprego se mantém baixo enquanto a busca por emprego fica brutal. O Boletim 130 explica por que as duas coisas são verdadeiras, quais ocupações mostram os primeiros sinais de substituição e o que os trabalhadores podem fazer com esse aviso.

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ai-labor-market

Vagas de IA São 75-85% STEM em Todos os 10 Países Estudados — A Nova Divisão na Contratação

Entre 75% e 85% das vagas relacionadas a IA estão concentradas em ocupações STEM — nos 10 países analisados por um novo estudo, dos Estados Unidos à Indonésia. Saúde, educação, serviços e logística ficam abaixo de 5% cada. E as maiores exigências de habilidades em IA recaem sobre vagas de nível inicial. Veja o que os dados significam para a sua carreira.

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ai-automation

Preparando-se para 2040: Quatro Cenários de IA Que Colocam Seu Futuro em Suas Mãos

27 pontos percentuais. É essa a distância entre os trabalhadores europeus que dizem precisar de habilidades em IA e os que já passaram por algum treinamento. Um novo relatório de prospectiva da Cedefop mapeia quatro futuros possíveis para 2040 — e defende que qual deles vai se concretizar é uma escolha, não uma profecia.

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labor-market

Executivos do Texas Que Usam IA Dizem Que Ela Ainda Não Cortou o Quadro de Funcionários

Pergunte a 203 executivos do Texas que realmente usam IA o que ela fez com o quadro de funcionários deles, e 76% respondem: nada. Mas a mesma pesquisa do Fed de Dallas mostra que os cortes de empregos esperados rodam 2,5 vezes mais quentes do que os reais — além de uma distância de 10 para 1 entre a produtividade que a IA entrega e o salário que ela retorna.

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policy

Brookings: Não Existe Bala de Prata Para IA e Empregos — Mas Existem Quatro Alavancas Reais

Cerca de três quartos dos adultos americanos temem que a IA custe empregos. Menos de 6% dos trabalhadores do setor privado têm um sindicato para negociar como ela é implantada. Uma nova estrutura da Brookings (29 de junho de 2026) chama essa distância de "o grande descompasso" — e defende que a resposta não é uma única política milagrosa, mas quatro alavancas usadas em conjunto: freios, direções, amortecedores e mudanças estruturais.

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labor-market

Fed de Dallas: A IA Só Eleva a Produtividade Onde as Pessoas Realmente a Usam

O índice de exposição à IA do seu setor praticamente não prevê nada. Uma nova pesquisa do Fed de Dallas, abrangendo os EUA e 16 economias europeias, mostra que a variável real é o uso: os setores americanos de alta exposição cresceram 3,7% em produtividade, enquanto os mesmos setores na Europa não mostraram nenhuma correlação. O índice de uso de IA dos EUA é 3,69 contra 1,85 da UE. A exposição é atribuída a você. O uso é escolhido.

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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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research

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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management

Por que sabemos menos do que pensamos sobre IA e empregos

Menos de 20% das empresas sequer usam IA. Empregos jovens em funcoes expostas estao caindo -- mas o desemprego nao esta subindo. Brookings diz que a pesquisa sobre IA e trabalho esta apenas comecando.

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