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The Widening Wage Gap In An Automation Era

Some data, and a story about automation induced waging inequality.

Jing Hu
Feb 27, 2024
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As part of the ‘Impact of AI on Workforce Dynamics: Task Displacement and Wage Inequality’ series, this post follows up on the job polarization topic, diving deeper into how job polarization impacts the wage gap.

To recap our last discussion, we explored the inevitability of the widening gap between high- and low-skill jobs, alongside the decline in mid-…

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