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The Swiss Inclusive Productivity Network analyzes productivity developments and intends to help develop measures to foster inclusive productivity.
Highly recommended!

"What if Labor Becomes Unnecessary?" Round Table with David Autor, Anton Korinek, and Natasha Sarin (hosted by David Leonhardt).

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | What if Labor Becomes Unnecessary?
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Highly relevant!

"Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces" by Lant Pritchett.

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
February 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Super interesting!

"Younger Firms and CEOs Allow More Work from Home" by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate.

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February 1, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Food for thought!

"Looking for the Ladder: Is AI Impacting Entry-Level Jobs?" by Zanna Iscenko and Fabien Curto Millet.

eig.org/wp-content/u...
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Highly interesting!

"The software complexity of nations" by Sándor Juhász, Johannes Wachs, Jermain Kaminski, and César A. Hidalgo.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 22, 2026 at 5:12 PM
This looks like a must-read!

"A.I. and Our Economic Future" by Charles I. Jones

"What if machines — A.I. for cognitive tasks and A.I. plus advanced robots for physical tasks — can perform every task a human can do but more cheaply?"

web.stanford.edu/~chadj/AIand...
January 20, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Highly recommended!

"Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion" by Jones, Tonetti

"Two key findings emerge. First, automation leads economic growth to accelerate over the next 75 years. Second, the acceleration is remarkably slow."

web.stanford.edu/~chadj/Jones...
January 17, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Highly relevant!

"The Virtuous Cycle Between Skills and Technology" by Sascha O. Becker, Christian Dustmann, and Hyejin Ku.

www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
January 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Highly relevant!

"The first 1000 days and beyond: The process of child development" by Orazio Attanasio.

www.nber.org/papers/w34651
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Super interesting!

"Renewable Energy Expansion: Key Challenges and Emerging Opportunities" by Koichiro Ito.

"This article reviews recent economic studies and identifies three central challenges and corresponding opportunities for scaling up renewable energy..."

www.nber.org/papers/w34644
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Highly relevant!

"How to AI-proof your job: The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market" by John Burn-Murdoch.

www.ft.com/content/5e25...
How to AI-proof your job
The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market
www.ft.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Super interesting!

"Urban-Biased Structural Change" by Horng Chern Wong, Dennis Novy, Carlo Perroni, and Natalie Chen.

www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Food for thought!

"Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030" (WEF)

"Human capital strategies and investments prioritized today will determine how well societies and individual businesses can adapt to – and lead in – the new economy."

www.weforum.org/publications...
January 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Highly relevant!

"O-Ring Automation" by Joshua S. Gans and Avi Goldfarb.

"The relevant object is not average task exposure but the structure of bottlenecks and how automation reshapes worker time around them."

www.nber.org/papers/w34639
January 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Super interesting food for thought!

"AI Changed Work Forever in 2025" by Erik Brynjolfsson.

"...the judgment to know what to ask, why it matters, and how to evaluate if the AI has actually succeeded. We will be the architects; the AI will be the builders."

time.com/7342494/ai-c...
AI Changed Work Forever in 2025
Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab breaks down how AI is disrupting work.
time.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Super interesting!

"The Allocation of Time and Remote Work" by Christos Makridis.

"...productivity gains reflect reallocation toward more productive, remote intensive industries and selection of relatively productive workers into those industries."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 1, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Highly recommended!

"The Economics of Climate Innovation: Technology, Climate Policy, and the Clean Energy Transition" by Eugenie Dugoua and Jacob Moscona.

www.nber.org/papers/w34601
December 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This looks like a must-read!

"Human Capital and Development" by Philippe Aghion, Ingvild Almås, and Costas Meghir.

www.nber.org/papers/w34602
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This was a highly relevant read in 2025!

"The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century" edited by Tim Besley, Irene Bucelli, and Andrés Velasco.

press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This was a super interesting paper in 2025!

"Integrating Climate Change into Macroeconomic Analysis: A Review of Impact Channels, Data, Models, and Scenarios" by various authors from the IMF.

www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Super interesting! This was a highlight of 2025!

"The Data Economy: Tools and Applications" by Isaac Baley and Laura L. Veldkamp.

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December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Food for thought!

"The Power of Proximity to Coworkers" by Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais.

www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
December 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Highly relevant!

"Measuring Natural Resources in the National Accounts" (OECD)

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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📢 #CallForPapers - 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society
In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June.
Deadline: 31 January 2026
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November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Very valuable!

"Mapping the global quantum ecosystem: A comprehensive analysis based on innovation, firm, investment, skills, trade and policy data" by the OECD and the European Patent Office.

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM