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Research based at @liser.lu on #digitalisation, labour relations, #FutureOfWork, #migration, unemployment, #AI, skills, employability, cross-border work, etc.
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To start the second day, for his first trip to Luxembourg, @davidautor.bsky.social is talking about expertise in an illuminating keynote

Does automation replace or augment expertise? The answer is both, and it depends on the task that is being automated.
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
... automating any given task may simultaneously replace experts in some occupations and augment expertise in others.

Discover the paper here: www.nber.org/papers/w33941

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Expertise
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The authors argue that the answer depends on whether removing tasks raises or reduces the expertise required to perform the bundle of tasks that remain. Because the tasks that are expert in one occupation may serve primarily as supporting tasks in another, ...

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September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
✍️ Co-authored with @erikbryn.bsky.social & Danielle Li
September 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM