Marginalium

A note in the margins

May 1, 2025

Marginalium

My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.

AI isn’t changing anything yet (pdf):

AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation, with confidence intervals ruling out effects larger than 1%. Modest productivity gains (average time savings of 2.8%), combined with weak wage pass-through, help explain these limited labor market effects. Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI.

But we knew that, because of the time-horizon.


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